Jandy Nelson Quotes

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

Jandy Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1965

Topics

FamilyMeSolitudeBetterNothing

This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation.

Steven Van Zandt

TimeDinnerRestaurantFriendsYou

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Tom Perrotta

ReligionPersonDecadeWithoutBeen

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Rutger Hauer

BeautifulSchoolWorldPlaceGoing

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Rush Limbaugh

YouGuiltyCrimeCommit

I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.

Mitch Gaylord

DownSoapRouteCommercialsTurned

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

Lisa Kudrow

EffortSillyBodyActingPersonOut

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.

Joseph Monninger

FutureSunsetBeautifulMomentMe

I've had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I've been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.

Jordan Rodgers

ControlGameFastLibertyUpPretty

Working with one of the best strength trainers in the world, I'm getting more dangerous. I'm getting stronger and stronger.

Deontay Wilder

StrengthBestWorldStrongerMore

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Dorothea Brande

MindWillAlwaysOpenFrontier

Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

Chris Blackwell

MeProcessInterestingProblemFarm

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

Christopher Atkins

TreesFeelingPlaceIslandPineGuy

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