Roxane Gay Quotes

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

Roxane Gay

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Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?

Amity Shlaes

WomanManParentsAmericaDownSay

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Stephen Sondheim

RichLanguageYouWhyPoorGet

There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.

Torrey DeVitto

PeopleThinkRealityYouMoreHuman

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

Rodney Crowell

MeWritingSongBetterSometimes

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Mary Gaitskill

SocietyThinkStrongerDesireWay

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

Don Nickles

WantFraudWellSureMake

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

Diedrich Bader

LearnEnoughLongYouListenImprov

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Dorothy Dunnett

MeLimitsGive MeGiveOffTour

It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.

Bobby Flay

YouPlaceImportantLeaveGoing

A lot of scouts said I was not capable to play short. Every team that came to me, they wanted me to play third, and I wanted to show everybody that they were wrong.

Asdrubal Cabrera

MeTeamShortWrongPlaySaid

If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.

Scott Adams

SuccessLuckControlGameBetter

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

Mark Edwards

MusicMeInterestingMarketingAbout

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