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Roxane Gay Quotes

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

Roxane Gay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Interesting Strategy Group Way Open

You cannot force a child to use their limbs if they're in pain.

Jesse White

Pain Child You Force Cannot Use

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

Andrew O'Hagan

Space People Theatre Page Conscience

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

Robert Lepage

Technology People Forget Theater

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

Amy Weber

Myself See I See Major Feature

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

Steve Albini

Good Responsibility Not Good Enough

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

Tori Amos

Mother Wife Step Trail Social Off

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

Rudy Giuliani

Hope Best Control Decisions You

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.

Michael Robotham

Marriage Hero Perfect Boring About

TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

Jason Calacanis

Laugh Bad Play Insult Poker After

Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.

Jose Andres

Father Fire People Me Growing Up

I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I'll do.

Chris Christie

Trust People Safety Tools American

It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't play a part. Of course it does - that's human nature.

Christoph Waltz

Nature Recognition Acting Play Craft