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Tao Lin Quotes

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Tao Lin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 2, 1983

Topics

Depression People Bed Right Leave

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Joanna Scott

Truth Heart Time Art Lie Start

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

John Conyers

American Numbers Build Presence

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Robert Graves

Love Status Must Amateur Strictly

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

Amy Tan

Mother Age Day Remember Every Day

Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.

Anand Mahindra

Going Electric Inevitably

Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.

Lois Chiles

Work Love Mother Best Together Me

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

Jason Bateman

Man People You Play Say Want

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Josh Tillman

Kind Golden Band Bored Playing

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Dominic Cooper

Moment Focus Creating Being Changing

I enjoy my job, and I will help my state all I can.

Dick Durbin

Job Help Enjoy I Can Will State

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'

Donny Most

Work Thought Comedy More Dramatic

When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.

Bre Pettis

Quality World You Create Out High