Janet Mock Quotes

Movies have always been spaces of refuge for me. For a few harmonious hours, I could escape my reality of being a girl living on the margins.

Janet Mock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1983

Topics

GirlMeRealityMoviesLivingBeen

We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.

Joe Gebbia

HomeNew YorkStartDesignLiving

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Melanie Rawn

BabyNameFabulousNamesDictionary

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.

John Krasinski

LoveMeBookBetterProgressiveGuy

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Maurice Maeterlinck

NatureProveWillReasonMayOnly

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robertson Davies

PoliticsKnowConservatismVery

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

Molly Ivins

WarBordersIsraelDidArabArmies

The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.

Lucy Larcom

LoveGoodGodDayMeRemember

I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

Judith Tarr

TimeWritingInterestingBackReal

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Joseph Barbera

FamilyMeExceptCouldDraw

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

Jorja Smith

MusicI AmWritingSometimesPlaying

Doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong - if I'm hungry or hot, I'm probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude.

Domhnall Gleeson

SomeoneWrongMatterRudeHotRight

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Drew Barrymore

FatherGreatMoneyPeopleMeYou

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