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Guy Finley Quotes

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 22, 1949

Topics

Yourself Be Yourself You Important

If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.'

Good Age I Am Fun Me Mom

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

Father Time Effort People Me Proud

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

Life Humble Humility Empathy People

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

John Sergeant Wise

Man Lost Difference Slave Practical

I can eat a lot of pizza. And I can cook. I'm from New Orleans, so it's just in my blood.

Trevante Rhodes

Pizza I Can New Blood Eat Cook

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Bad Want Marry Anybody Certainly

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

Cats Los Angeles Dogs Cat Six Eight

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Doing You Desk Nice Clean Anything

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

Michael Ondaatje

History Moment Three Coincidence

I find that I am much slower in the beginning of a book. I am thinking of the plot, of the characters and who they are, and where they are going. I often throw out a lot of the writing I start with, because the characters and plot improve as I write. Or perhaps I should say it is my hope they will improve as I write.

Hope Beginning I Am Writing Start

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

Smart You Dead Write Classic

I was watching the 2014 World Cup, and I was playing with the U-17s, I think, at the time. I remember watching it in the summer, and I was like, 'You know what? It's a pretty crazy goal, but I want to be there in 2018.'

Christian Pulisic

Time Crazy World Think Remember You

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