Michelle Dean Quotes

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

Michelle Dean

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PeopleCoolYouEarlyTelevision

I don't worry about stress. I create it.

Jim Mattis

StressWorryCreateAbout

I never imagined people like Thanos and Warlock would be drawn into films. They're weird characters in weird stories. Luckily, the twisted kids who read those weird stories are now the twisted adults who are making movies.

Jim Starlin

PeopleWeirdNowMoviesNeverKids

Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

Jerry West

BestTeamYouAlwaysDisagreeWins

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

Andre Dubus III

SweetMakeupThinkKidAlwaysGot

I've worked really hard to bring something more to 'pretty girl' roles over the years. I consider it a challenge.

Amber Heard

GirlChallengeMoreHardOverBring

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

Steven Pinker

LifeBusinessFateFriendsYouWant

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Joseph Stiglitz

PeoplePoliticalEnoughYouKnow

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

Jonny Lee Miller

I AmPeopleUpBeingScotlandAm

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

Dean Winters

TimeWalkI AmNew YorkCityWorld

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Augustus Hare

GoodMenThinkBadMoreAct

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

William Stafford

MusicDanceLearnAnythingKids

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Alison Lohman

MotherDaughterChallengesFaceGo

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