Roxane Gay Quotes

I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and Juliet' came to such a pass.

Roxane Gay

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RomanticWhyUnderstandRomancePass

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

GoodPeopleEvilInstitutionWhich

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

Matt Dillon

LoveLove IsMessyCleanReal

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

Tom Brokaw

FamilyLearningWritingFriendsWay

Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.

Roger Federer

LifeYouUpThingsSureChanging

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Rob Gronkowski

EyesFootballPainParentsTears

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

Ron Ben-Israel

BirthdayMomentCakeYouBarBig

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Michelangelo Antonioni

SpaceYouKnowEmptyStandingFilm

He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?

Missy Elliott

YouDownWantGetWhoLike

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

David Tang

YouReadCyberspaceHearsayCent

I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me.

Christopher Knight

MeLookingSomeoneManagerTurnWho

It doesn't matter who you love or who you want to cheer for; at the end of the match, you are on your feet, you are going crazy, you have lost your voice, and we did our job.

Braun Strowman

LoveJobCrazyFeetVoiceEnd

Early 1900s Hollywood was full of farmers battling to hold onto their land against a new influx of filmmakers who dug Hollywood's reliable weather and diverse landscape.

Shawn Amos

WeatherLandscapeEarlyNewLand

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