Walter Kirn Quotes

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Walter Kirn

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CuriousStoryLooksNestLineShiny

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

Jesse Eisenberg

LifeDayYouActingComfortableWay

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

John L. Phillips

SpaceLookingDownStopWindowsOut

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Matthew McConaughey

DailyBeastGoWebsitesOutCheck

I like to know where the camera is.

Jeff Bridges

CameraKnowWhereLike

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Steven Pinker

OceanMoonFlyTreesInternetFish

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

Slick Rick

GrowStageBeenAllowedInfantile

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

Sigmar Polke

LoveMyselfI AmHappyBe HappyDot

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

Robert Bringhurst

TogetherPoetryThinkLongKnowBig

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

Roger Bannister

HomePeopleSmallHouseStairsRoof

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Rufus Wainwright

WorkI AmMeWorldThinkIllusion

I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.

Min Jin Lee

DayNew YorkCityCalmThoughtNew

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Jools Holland

GoodWorldGood ExamplePhonesLike

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