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Lauren Groff Quotes

I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

Lauren Groff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1978

Topics

Community Fly Long Measure Seeing

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

Jimmy Piersall

Great Feel I Feel Triple Had Bypass

I'm an only child.

Jenna Morasca

Child Only Child Only

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

John Lithgow

Failure People Disappointment Ego

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.

Stephen Merchant

Challenge Night Puzzle Picture Doing

Everybody cheats on the Kardashians.

Tony Rock

Everybody Cheats

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.

Mary Wesley

Life Experience People Me Writing

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

Miriam Margolyes

Think Scared Because Get Disappoint

When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe.

Diana Gabaldon

Home God Power I Am Writing TV

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

Dawn Wells

Life Work Age Best Woman Better

I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.

Chris Lane

Love Kind Listen Everything Still

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

Chely Wright

Hope People Song Go Out Buy

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

Clive Barker

Imagination Think Feel Important