Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

Dinaw Mengestu

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I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy - I'm not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.

Jesmyn Ward

WorkHopeHandsPlaceKnowNever

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

Melissa McCarthy

ThoughtWishSometimesNeverSize

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

John Lithgow

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We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.

Ann McLane Kuster

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

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When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

Robert Wilson

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Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date.

Ronnie Corbett

ThinkComedyTongueWhyWillOff

I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.

David Slade

FearThinkYouToo MuchNeverBreak

Newark faces real challenges.

Cory Booker

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I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and I am not looking for anybody to say, 'Thanks' and 'You are great!'

William McNamara

LifeGreatI AmAnimalMeLooking

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Fichtner

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The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

Shane Warne

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