Andrew Solomon Quotes

The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that - the clearer people's inherent dignity becomes.

Andrew Solomon

Recitation: by Male by Female

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MistakePeopleWritingDoingLook

Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.

Joanna Coles

Growing UpWorldGrowingUpGet

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

Megan Mullally

IdeasNameLongBandEmailUp

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

John Newcombe

PositiveFireMeNegativeYouWay

Everyone experiences different parts of themselves at different times, these different parts of themselves that come out in different settings.

Amandla Stenberg

EveryoneOutExperiencesDifferent

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Amy Hempel

GreatWritingSmallStoryLearnYou

I just don't want to do films for the sake of it.

Sridevi

WantJustSakeFilms

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Mary McDonnell

LovePowerWomanBetterTroubleWay

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

Lisa Jewell

LiePeopleIdeasClimbNightProud

It's quite hard to act yourself all the time.

Dick Van Dyke

TimeYourselfHardActQuite

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

Christine Baranski

YouActorAlwaysThingsWell

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

Anthony Scaramucci

MeMatterUsedMeanness

Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period.

Tim Scott

GetObamacareRidPeriod

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