Kristina McMorris Quotes

Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.

Kristina McMorris

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IgnoranceBelieveStoryEasyTask

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

GreatImpossiblePoliticalAnimals

After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day before she started work. I thought, 'Okay, I'll try it.' Before each writing session, I started to read the Bible like a writer, thinking about language, character, and themes.

Min Jin Lee

WorkCharacterDayWritingLawyer

People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as 'Winner of a Losing Game' and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.

Jay DeMarcus

LosingPeopleGameWinnerFindMore

There's always time to date.

Johnny Iuzzini

TimeAlwaysDate

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'

Desiigner

EvenTracksEnhancing

I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about Asian-American narratives that they can cite 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' or 'Mulan' as proof of concept when it's a different experience.

Constance Wu

ExperienceTogetherThinkWishTiger

A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.

Brian Grazer

GoodCuriousExpectationsYouTest

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Brian Sandoval

SupportImmigrantsDriverAmnesty

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

WorldStartingGreatestZero

My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother got her college degree in 1920. What's the problem? Those opportunities were always there for women.

Phyllis Schlafly

MotherWomenGreatSchoolCollege

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

Serj Tankian

PoliticsCrazyEndSolutionWayTry

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Marilu Henner

PositiveAttitudeBestStartPlan

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