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Brian Selznick Quotes

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 14, 1966

Topics

Good Art Think Always Something

We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

Myself Wise People Tough Trouble

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

Humor Sometimes Boy Laughing Had

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Marya Hornbacher

Life Teacher Detail My Life Physics

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.

Beauty Beautiful Time People Think

Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance.

Creativity Choices Trees Choose Play

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Mistake Out Cut Get Rough Which

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Brother Eight Bars Worked

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Stupid Think Sometimes Just

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Life Friendship Friend Community Aim

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

Susana Martinez

Justice Experience Me Privacy System

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

Peter Hollingworth

Good Attitude Truth Time Discipline

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.

Richard N. Haass

Ambition World Legacy Chance Design

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