Anne Fadiman Quotes

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Anne Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1953

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Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

Joe Bastianich

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'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

Jessica Williams

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I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!

Joel Kinnaman

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I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

Meek Mill

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For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

Michael Hayden

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My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.

Stephen Pagliuca

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I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God, and becoming a better version of yourself.

Sterling K. Brown

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Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Robert Wilson

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My radio company has begun calling me 'the happy conservative warrior.'

Mike Gallagher

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I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Mitch Albom

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I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Judy Greer

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I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Joseph Prince

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