Michelle Dean Quotes

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.

Michelle Dean

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GreatHappyPeopleAnswersNowhere

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

Angela Duckworth

TimeThinkingAnythingGenesBecause

I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

Anjelica Huston

HateMeSayingThinkLovedAnything

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

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For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Steve Israel

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Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

Stephen Rodrick

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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WordsPeopleWorldConstitutionOut

As a Fox News Channel contributor, I've learned most of the tips over the years: look into the camera like it's a good friend; pull your suit jacket down and sit on it so it doesn't bunch up; and most importantly, never, ever say anything while sitting in that studio that you wouldn't want someone else to hear.

Mike Gallagher

GoodFriendSomeoneCameraYouLook

From the way I sing to what I write about to what I put out with my stamp separates me from everyone else.

Luke James

MeWayWriteEveryoneOutSing

As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state's chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of law, and that means fighting violence and oppression wherever it exists, especially violence against the poor and vulnerable.

Josh Hawley

I AmLawLaw EnforcementFighting

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

Christien Meindertsma

NatureSandPigGlueInteriorPaint

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

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