Rumaan Alam Quotes

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

Rumaan Alam

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PeopleYouWillNeverWriteWell

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Andrew Cohen

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As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

John Langdon

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I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.

John Irving

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I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Merton Miller

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I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Spike Jonze

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The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Tom Stoppard

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The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.

Tom Cotton

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We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Lou Brock

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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Desmond Morris

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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Chris Gardner

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Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

Christian Slater

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There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

Bobby Bowden

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