Jonathan Franzen Quotes

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

Jonathan Franzen

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BookFirstSecondSomeWaysAbout

For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.

Andrew Haigh

PeopleMeGayComplicatedImportant

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

John Knoll

PictureTroubleWayWhateverThrough

I'm a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you're going out-shout me.

Ana Navarro

MeThinkMiamiYouLatinaGoing

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

KingLawConnectionSaidMoreTake

Nobody wants to play a one-dimensional character.

Travis Fimmel

CharacterPlayNobodyWants

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

Lou Reed

MusicPeopleDieWhyDyingWhy Not

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Drake

WorkLoveSucceedMoreShirtSell

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

David Sedaris

PersonNervousAlwaysBecauseBeen

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Brian De Palma

SuccessFinancialYouBackGoBig

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

Chuck Schumer

YouKnowConservativeRightDemocrat

Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

Anthony Wayne

StormHellWillOrdersSirIssue

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

Brian Reitzell

MusicFreedomAmazingMeWantKind

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