Tara Westover Quotes

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

Tara Westover

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LifeGoodAngerBrainYouPeaceful

Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don't think those countries have better brains.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

ThinkBetterWhyBrainsGotExample

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Jess Walter

PoetryStepWritingTryingWrite

When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

John Carpenter

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I really love D.C.; it's one of my favorite places to perform. I always say when I come here, I feel like my IQ increases by 20 points.

Maz Jobrani

LoveFeelSayPlacesAlwaysHere

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Anna Deavere Smith

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The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.

Riz Ahmed

MusicArtTalentLiteraturePool

I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.

Louis Theroux

BackInterestGotGetLikeZimbabwe

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

CrimeWittyRealBeingScotland

I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.

Chelsea Handler

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They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Christiane Amanpour

JournalismKnowSeriouslyForceTake

I have a background in counseling because I've been to a lot of therapy.

Bobby Berk

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Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

Bryan Procter

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