Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.

Nic Pizzolatto

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MeRealityExplorationBornTrauma

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.

Jessica Pare

HomeCarMeFeelMoreScared

There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.

Meg Rosoff

PeopleCityMeKindMoreSeem

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

Meghan Daum

ChallengePeopleWritingBelieve

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Maya Angelou

HeartPeopleBrainWriteThrough

I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

Steve Harvey

MenPeopleThinkYoungHip-HopEars

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Trevor Brooking

ChanceSecond ChanceTwiceGetThem

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

TravelUnderstandingCountryFirst

When we set out to build Eventbrite, we had to face many challenges and come up with creative solutions to get past them. Each time we learned new ways to cope, we became a stronger and more cohesive team.

Julia Hartz

TimePastCreativeTeamChallenges

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

Lisa Guerrero

WomanMeTalkAfraidBecause

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Joyce Meyer

PeopleEnjoyComplainThingsLike

Mexico is a free trade partner of Canada. Despite that, for many Canadians, Mexico is even more foreign, unknown, and uninteresting than many countries in Africa.

Denise Dresser

FreePartnerCanadaUnknownAfrica

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.

Bobby Fischer

HouseWhiteNeverLittleCommunist

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