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John Shirley Quotes

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1953

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People Alive More Naked Normal Even

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

Night Friday Doing Lights Band

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

You Create Image Something Your

I am always going to be the same guy. The fireman that lives in Cleveland.

I Am Same Always Guy Going Am

At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.

Friend Mother Age Myself Me Sister

I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background.

Work City Journalism Strike Group

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

Honor Now Still Some Had

I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Beauty Dreams People Me Library

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.

Team Sell Your Sucks

I'm motivated to be No. 1.

The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.

Child People Book Said Want Birth

The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt.

Moment Me Hurt Parent You Lose

When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.

Confidence Moment Next Normal Being

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