Roxane Gay Quotes

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

Roxane Gay

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LoveMeBelieveRelationshipsIdea

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

Joan Rivers

YearNeedSeeOutI SeeWonderful

I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.

John Cameron Mitchell

CultureManRememberSeeingStage

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Jenna Elfman

WomenCharacterTimeBirdThink

Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.

John Landis

BusinessMoneySomeoneYouNever

I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

John Saxon

MeThinkYouKnowStillDo You Know

I think to take your shirt off, you need to have a great body and more than that, confidence and attitude. It's all related. A great body equals confidence, and confidence equals attitude. And when you put all three together, you get a Salman Khan! And that's not me.

Riteish Deshmukh

ConfidenceAttitudeGreatTogether

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

Joseph Lancaster

ChildrenParentsCostWhoMillion

I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'

Derek Walcott

ChanceFeelYouLookBackNostalgia

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Diablo Cody

HistoryIgnoreChannelNormally

VR should offer an experience that's more exciting than watching in 2D, and we're pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar's already pretty high.

Doug Liman

GoodExperienceStorytellingWatching

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.

Dean Karnazes

PeopleMeSomeoneHolidayLiving

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

Arne Glimcher

LifeThinkFateCreateAchieveOwn

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