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Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

Patrick Rothfuss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1973

Topics

Art Empathy Feel Trying You High

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Joe E. Lewis

Day Me Glasses Table Know Need

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

John Burnside

Best Me World Friends Way Changed

The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.

John Battelle

Beauty Innovation Win Award Go Page

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.

Michael Chiklis

Great World Think Why Up Collective

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

Amanda Lindhout

Change Time People Think Wish More

When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.

Stewart Lee

Social Media People Control Story

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

Tom Seaver

Know Important Head Get Made He

The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.

Robin Wright

Best Eating House Cards Shooting

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Mike Nichols

Best Job Story Way Explain Tell

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set.

Mona Eltahawy

Writing End Up Narrative Avoid Set

My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.

Luis Fonsi

Work Family Time Peace Me Feel

We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.

Luis Videgaray Caso

Opportunity Beginning Canada Want Us