Richard Russo Quotes

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Richard Russo

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RelationshipPeopleMeRichLook

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

John Belushi

HappinessTimeYouWantStateGuess

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

Andy Serkis

CharacterGameDirectionAudience

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

Meshell Ndegeocello

MusicHeroPeopleMeCareSaid

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Tom Stoppard

AttitudeHealthWaitHealthyOthers

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Tom Stoppard

MyselfTryDiaryLeaveSomething

I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.

Logic

MusicEarlyLateNewListenTribe

I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.

Jared Cohen

MoneyIdeasPlanningInterestingSay

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Donna Summer

PersonExtraordinaryThingsJustDid

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

ThinkImportantKindTryReligions

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Coretta Scott King

NightHouseWhiteOldThanksgiving

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

Sylvester Stallone

BestPeopleRegretThinkPushOut

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

Susan George

LifeThinkImportantThreeWhy

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