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Laura van den Berg Quotes

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and I was really chafing against the very minimal brand of domestic realism that I'd read so much of in college.

Laura van den Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

College Voice Brand Better Trying

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Joan Jett

Believe In Yourself Yourself People

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

Work Myself Fool Who Public Works

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Matthew Weiner

Change Community People Revolution

If you're going to wear statement shoes, it is best to keep your outfit simple.

Jeanne Damas

Shoes Best Simple You Outfit Going

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Michael Arad

Future Architecture Me Relationships

We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.

John T. Chambers

Today Know Skills Veterans Workforce

If you represent a fantasy for the people who actually go to the cinema, they grab that and go with it; therefore, for the rest of their lives, they actually identify you with a certain thinking - a certain philosophy. There are many actors who want to pursue that same thought in real life as well, and that's perfectly acceptable.

Amitabh Bachchan

Life People Rest Thinking Thought

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Sugata Mitra

Knowledge Brain Financial Political

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

Robert De Niro

Good Hotel Place Stay Definition

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Michael Moore

Problem Result Unions Right Everyone

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Miranda Otto

Work Mother Wife Someone Intelligent

When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop and the arts were like this 'cause we both were outcasts: we wasn't allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.

Jay-Z

Music People Writing Street Hip-Hop