Martha Beck Quotes

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

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People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.

Jenny Zhang

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I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

John Hughes

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I've had some real hair disasters.

Sienna Miller

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I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Robbie Williams

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I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.

Roxane Gay

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Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

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Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.

Jonathan Zittrain

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For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

Jonathan Anderson

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My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound.

Ty Segall

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I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

Tom Baker

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You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Tim Cahill

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The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

Ricky Skaggs

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