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Philipp Meyer Quotes

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding.

Philipp Meyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Place Steel Class Hard Up Heavy

I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.

John Leguizamo

Myself Me You Down Know Empower

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

Angus Young

Good Simple Song You Play Go

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

Mia Wasikowska

People Kid Used Imitate Mimic Bit

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

Rosemary Mahoney

Fear Writing Hands Procrastination

My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine.

Lois Greenfield

Mind Potential Photography Moments

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Loretta Young

Self-Confidence Bear Knew Any Anyone

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

Joshua Bell

Good Vision Architecture Know Lead

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

David Strathairn

Today Legacy Think Important Way

God has never disappointed me.

Brenda Lee

God Me Never Disappointed

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

Anthony McCarten

Great Someone Doing Dangerous Out

If you start having to tell people you're cool, you're not.

Rick Nielsen

People Cool Start You Tell Having

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

Noah Feldman

Experience Immigration Sometimes