Donna Tartt Quotes

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

Donna Tartt

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ChildhoodMeLovedNowWayFirst

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

Joel Grey

PastYouthRootsWorldThinkYou

I've accomplished everything I ever wanted to do in my career.

Matt Hardy

CareerEverythingAccomplishedWanted

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Stanislav Grof

ChangeFutureBelieveToolsCrisis

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Simon Baker

ThinkTalkingYouRebelDownKids

Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle.

Rob Thurman

YouLookNewWantSettleAccept

Labour and land are always politically sensitive.

Jose Angel Gurria

LandAlwaysSensitiveLabour

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Dinah Shore

LifeLoveChanceEnoughYouPerson

Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.

Johnny Weir

GodSportsMenMeProudLegend

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind.

Donald E. Westlake

MindDoingWrongTwoWhateverGuy

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

Clayton M. Christensen

LifeGoodManThinkBetterMy Life

DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.

ASAP Ferg

ThoughtBetterLookDogsHimUp

Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.

Twinkle Khanna

PeopleBoringHopelessBeingOddball

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