Sally Rooney Quotes

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

Sally Rooney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: 1991

Topics

ArtCultureLiteratureComfortable

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

Amanda Abbington

CharacterMeWritingStrongWill

I would like to learn so many things: I'd like to take tennis classes, I'd like continuing vocal lessons, and I'd definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap.

Sofia Vassilieva

LearnIceSkatingMoreTennisTake

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Tom Rachman

MeReadingPrisonWeirdI CanNever

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Rob Corddry

FreedomJealousMediaMagicWantUs

If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.

Jason McCoy

LoveGoodMusicTimeMindSong

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Christiaan Barnard

HeartBetterWormsTransplantThan

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

Chris Rock

CommunitySchoolCollegeHigh School

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

Colin Hanks

FriendLiveSimpleFunRelaxTry

I think it's hard for someone to play short and then come back to second. It's not the same.

Asdrubal Cabrera

ThinkShortSomeoneBackPlayHard

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

Thomas Middleditch

CharacterBrainThinkDrawingYou

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

Tim Blake Nelson

LifeLiveNew YorkWritingBackNew

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Richard Burton

KnowWhoKnowsHeHowIndeed

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