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Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1968

Topics

Time Living Earned Juggling Insane

Have you ever noticed the fact that once you begin to think about something, you see it everywhere? Anyone who has ever begun the search for a new automobile can attest, from the moment you Google it, you begin to pass that model in traffic everywhere. Of course, they were there the whole time; we simply didn't have them at top of mind.

Time Moment Mind Think Search You

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

Parents Conflict Argument Person Cry

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

Sparky Anderson

Education School Me Believe High

That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control.

Me Control Hard Everything Arts Get

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

God Win Book Believe Think You

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

Myself I Am I Have Learned Keep How

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

Doing Television Acting Started Show

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Joyce Carol Oates

Morning Style Beginning Consistency

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

Teacher School Mind Me High School

That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

Funny Style Me Handsome Someone Why

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

Penelope Spheeris

Love Rock Punk Punk Rock Metal Also

When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

Work Think You Back Page Say

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