Rick Moody Quotes

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

Rick Moody

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It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that feels fun and fresh to me tends to happen fairly unthinkingly.

Jennifer Egan

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As a child, I was lucky to have the support of my parents because starting a tennis career is a very expensive adventure.

Stan Wawrinka

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Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

Robert Dallek

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With honest discussion, free speech, let people's voices be heard.

Ron Johnson

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There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

Mary H.K. Choi

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Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.

Mike McCready

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I don't like condo life.

Mitch Gaylord

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Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

Lisa Jewell

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I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Del Shannon

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Every time someone told me I couldn't, I did. I'm still the same guy who's responsible for one of the better Intercontinental runs of all time and changing that title.

Cody Rhodes

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Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Prince Charles

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