Sally Rooney Quotes

I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I would think, 'Oh well, I have to write something now that really represents my generation or that really represents young Irish people.'

Sally Rooney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestPeopleMeThinkGenerationNow

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

Melissa McCarthy

ThoughtWishSometimesNeverSize

About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.

Michael Greger

PeoplePotentialNeverCancerMay

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Amy Tan

LifeGreatInfluenceReadingMy Life

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.'

Stephanie Klein

FocusPeopleFatYouSaidSay

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Steven Pinker

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I'm not a confrontational person or comedian. I think we can explore more things if one of us is not fighting with the other. I take it easy. But I do like comedians who are very different from myself: I love dry comics with deadpan one-liners. I look on and think, 'That's amazing; why didn't I think of that?'

Trevor Noah

LoveMyselfAmazingThinkFighting

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.

Rosamund Pike

TimeSomeoneYouActingComfortable

The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.

Lloyd Blankfein

CapitalismPlacePureSystemFact

The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of water management. We recommend improving water pricing to recover costs and to reflect the value of water to users and society.

Jose Angel Gurria

WaterValueManagementSocietySpeed

I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.

Christine McVie

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It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

Clive Sinclair

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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Bobby Seale

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