Michael Finkel Quotes

My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.

Michael Finkel

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GoodMindWritingStoryDirection

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

MyselfChildPeopleMeIdeasWant

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

Jerry Falwell

MarriageGodWomanManLawBond

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

Andrew Haigh

Growing UpLonelyFeelEnjoyGrowing

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

John McCain

GovernmentPeopleHelpCrisisWhy

I was a cute kid.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

CuteKid

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

WarWorldPoliticalYouBornMoral

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Sophocles

FutureMenManUpFortuneLow

'Krampus' had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.

Toni Collette

OriginalityBoardAboutCertainHad

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

Tom Ford

FashionWhyActorPresidentDesigner

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Michael Novak

SocietyConscienceGroundHereProof

From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.

Lizzo

AgeReligionYoungWithinSaw

I'm a designer, but I rely on programmers to bring my ideas to life. By learning to code myself, I think I can make things easier for all of us. Similarly, I want to be able to build things on my own without having to bother a programmer.

Jason Fried

LifeLearningMyselfIdeasThink

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