Susan Orlean Quotes

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

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MotherHomeStand UpStandRacing

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

John Dyer

CameraSeeI SeePaintWould

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

John Lanchester

ThinkStrangeSoundScaryAnything

When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.

Matthew Desmond

MindThinkSecurityBecomeFair

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Jeffery Deaver

ScienceTraditionBackGoingStories

I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

Trent Reznor

YouKnowKindNailsNeverProject

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

Rob Gronkowski

YouPageWantTopAlwaysEveryone

Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.

Roger Ailes

JobRacismFindUpHeVan

Chelsea is always hard to break into, but I believe in myself, and if I work hard, then hopefully things will go well.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

WorkMyselfWork HardBelieveGo

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

Mickey Rourke

LookAthleteNeverBackwardsAlways

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

Mike Mills

WorkFamilyLoveCultureHateSpace

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Monica Crowley

KnowConservativeModernStartedNor

We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas; we will destroy them today.

Mohammad bin Salman

TodayIdeasWillYearsDestroyOur

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