Ayelet Waldman Quotes

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

BeautifulChallengeFunArtistKind

In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.

Jesse Harris

PastDeepDownMy OwnReasonOwn

I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.

Sloane Crosley

GoodDayGood DaySchoolSmallYear

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

Tommy Lee Jones

LifeChangeEarthMarsPlanetsOur

The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

Tony Earley

WritingStartFeelDownFirstTop

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.

Ronda Rousey

GirlManSchoolFunPeopleMe

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

Michel Houellebecq

StupidAmericaCountryIntellectual

I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

Jason Kander

DayVotingHelpEvery DayChampions

For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

Jose Antonio Vargas

AgeI AmMeSomeoneBackPerson

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

Derrick Rose

PositivePastNegativeEnergyThink

We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Douglas Rushkoff

TimeBestWorldDrivingAttention

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Christopher Nolan

RevengeInterestingOutsideAbstract

To me, true style icons have been few and far between. Elizabeth Taylor comes to mind. I never got to meet her while she was alive, but she is one of those people I have always admired in terms of her sense of style.

Coco Rocha

StylePeopleMindMeAliveMeet

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