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Ben Dolnick Quotes

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.

Ben Dolnick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1982

Topics

Work People More Nuts Little Than

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

Jennifer Grey

Learning Dance New York Me Baby

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

Matthew Henry

World Care Hands Whatever Out Us

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

Tom Douglas

Think You Know Teach Cook Kids

So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.

Martin O'Malley

Parents Forward Enough Look Create

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

Colin Jost

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Bobby Brown

Life Family Children Man Learn Well

The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.

Ty Dolla Sign

Good Great Night Homework Better Go

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Thornton Wilder

Home Adventure Wish You Safe Having

I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

Ntozake Shange

Mother People Me Black Remember See

There is part of me that will always feel wrong for any leading man-type, charming guy or whatever. I am not that guy. I am so weird. I say inappropriate things, and if I have any charm at all, it's in my utter lack of charm.

Nick Wechsler

I Am Me Weird Feel Wrong Say

I don't have anything against Simon Cowell and 'The X Factor.'

Marilyn Manson

Anything Against X Factor Factor

What motivates me has changed over time. My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful.

Julie Sweet

Time Me Self Desire Over Successful