Daniel Mallory Ortberg Quotes

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1986

Topics

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Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

Jenna Morasca

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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

Andre Leon Talley

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Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

Anna Friel

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I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

Ann Cotton

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To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.

Amy Klobuchar

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All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

Steven Wright

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I think when I feel fear, that's often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, that's a strong sign, psychologically, that something has its hooks in me somewhere deep.

Robin Weigert

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I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Mike Myers

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They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.

Mike Judge

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In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'

Michael Keaton

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I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.

Mo Ibrahim

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A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Moby

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