Holly Near Quotes

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

Holly Near

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GreatPeopleDinnerSurpriseLiving

I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.

Jim Parrack

FoodMoneyShortFastGoSometimes

You can ask me anything you want. That doesn't mean I'm going to answer you.

Jerry Lewis

MeYouWantMeanAskAnything

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

John Banville

FamilyBookI CanCrimeLikeAfter

Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

Jenny Han

BookTalkingYouKnowSometimes

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

Anant Agarwal

EducationQualityWorldBetterHigh

If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

Max Joseph

LiveDayPeopleCityHumanityYou

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

Ann Dowd

Stand UpThinkStandYouSayUp

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

Roger Stone

TruthTruth IsPrisonYouRules

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

Mary Roach

PlaceJacketOutWhoThoseActually

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

Mike White

PeopleCoolWorldStartThinkDoing

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Lucinda Williams

PeopleMeWritingFreeProblemKnow

After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded.

Louis Theroux

MyselfAmazingEndYouTubeWatching

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