Kim Brooks Quotes

I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?

Kim Brooks

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LifeArtParentingSacrificeWriting

I leave a $100 bill and a note to the housekeeper at every hotel I've ever been in. It's important to write that they're recognized and appreciated.

Jim Irsay

HotelImportantWriteLeaveBeen

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Buchan

HumilityHumanityWithout

I feel like I have a lot of potential, a lot of stuff to show.

Joel Embiid

PotentialFeelI Feel LikeStuffLot

I don't know why so many people seem upset about the fact that Nev Schulman and I are so against Trump.

Max Joseph

PeopleKnowUpsetWhySeemAgainst

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

John Sandford

LivePeoplePlaceCaliforniaMuch

When I was in high school, I wasn't thinking about getting a scholarship. I was thinking about trying to go and dominate. Same thing in college. I just have to focus on playing the best football I can.

Mike Daniels

BestFocusFootballSchoolCollege

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

Michael Morpurgo

MyselfThinkWantMoreSureStill

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

Miranda Otto

TogetherGet TogetherYouDownKnow

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.

Jayson Blair

PeopleMediaYouLookNewsSaid

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

Donella Meadows

PlansCutGermanyDenmarkPercent

I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.

Arden Cho

LifeRacismPersonSingleHospital

No violent extreme endures.

Thomas Carlyle

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