Rebecca Makkai Quotes

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Rebecca Makkai

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In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

John C. Calhoun

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I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

Andy Richter

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Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

Steve Blank

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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

Trixie Mattel

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I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

Roger Moore

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Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

Mike Ditka

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Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

Louise Slaughter

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I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Lorraine Toussaint

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He will have true glory who despises it.

Livy

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That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

Jason Katims

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I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.

Jason Isbell

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Joseph Addison

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