Michelle Dean Quotes

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

Michelle Dean

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FamousFatOutFictionBooksCourse

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Amy Cuddy

GoComfortableCompetenceBeingAble

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.

Sonny Sandoval

MeListeningWorldBadBornNew

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

Louis MacNeice

PastWritingThinkPresentPortrait

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

HomeWarPovertyWillUsOnly

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.

Doug Collins

GoodHopeWinningStartChanceBack

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

Clive Barker

WorkPowerPeopleKnowWhyImage

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

Brigitte Bardot

WorkI AmRightUngratefulAm

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

Arthur Smith

YouBoringKeepGoingStillFew

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

Alison Goldfrapp

MusicWantWriteHappenGoingClear

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

William S. Burroughs

ArtMyselfWritingHelpKnowHand

When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.

Tito Ortiz

LightFightMeCageGetSwitch

I guarantee that if you ask anyone who is guarding me, they won't say I'm taking plays off. It's actually a compliment to me that I make the game look that easy, where people think I don't play that hard.

Markelle Fultz

PeopleMeGameThinkYouLook

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