Miranda July Quotes

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.

Miranda July

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WomenDiaryWriteGroundUpOnly

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Jasper Johns

MeCalamity

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

Dhani Jones

CreativityFootballI AmIdeasMore

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.

Chet Faker

GoodYouBadBackUpHype

If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.

Antoine Fuqua

CoffeeYouWayTalkOutDisagree

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Anne Graham Lotz

LifeGodFaithRelationshipMoment

I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.

Ashley Wagner

GoodMusicGirlMeEvilFeel

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

GreatPeaceWorldCountryAchieve

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

Peter Thiel

PeopleThinkPrivacyWillAlways

I made a very poor decision in my first marriage. I know God's forgiven me.

Scott DesJarlais

MarriageGodDecisionMeKnowPoor

I played at Sony, Warner Bros., Universal, Big Machine, Capitol... after I played every one of those places, everyone offered me a record deal. I was just like, 'Who am I? Why do I even deserve this?' There are people busting their butts on Broadway doing this hardcore, playing three hours a night for tips, and I didn't even ask for it.

Thomas Rhett

PeopleMeNightDoingThreeWhy

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Leonard Cohen

LifeDepressionSpeakAnxietyWell

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

Leighton Meester

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