Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.

Nic Pizzolatto

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If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

Joe Garcia

GoodJobGovernmentYouCrimeGive

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

John Bonham

GoodLookSomethingGotSignTried

You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job.

Matthew Desmond

WorkHomeJobMistakesProblemYear

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Stacy Keibler

BestLongSayLegsWouldInches

It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

Tucker Carlson

LifeSocietyDownPersonBecome

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

MusicWordsNameSometimesChicago

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Robert Burton

LifeGoodManAngelLongBad

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

VanityMoreWriteObviousThan

Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been closely associated.

Michelle Dean

VacationReadingNewLeisureBeen

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

Michael Shanks

CharacterImpossiblePlayTrueHim

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

Chris Pine

WalkSomeoneYouFindFragranceOut

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Brooks Robinson

PassionBaseballMeNameEveryday

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