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Daniel Mallory Ortberg Quotes

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Happy Person Eighty Clowns Canon

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

Nature Alone Goal Celebrity Never

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

Matthew Broderick

Good Character I Am Me Accountant

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Anna Deavere Smith

Influence Movies Trends Chorus

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

Party Knife Driver Record Wrote

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

Think Right Nirvana Honest Like Jam

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Painting Writing Loved Career Way

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

Love Beautiful Time Myself Dance Me

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician.

Best Year Want Guy Just Incredible

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

Love Music Listen Different Movie

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

Time Think Want Loudest More Gone

Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.

Me Generation Internet Perfect Up

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Marriage Home Women Woman Child

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