Rachel Joyce Quotes

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

Rachel Joyce

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BeautyMyselfPeopleWritingThink

'A High Wind in Jamaica' is like those books you used to read under the covers with a flashlight - only infinitely more delicious... and macabre.

Andrew Sean Greer

WindYouMoreHighUsedDelicious

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Andrae Crouch

LifeGodLovedWantRememberedGuy

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film.

Andre Holland

HomeExperienceFeelLovingFilm

It's cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I'm just going to see what comes my way.

Max Riemelt

CoolHonorWaySeeShootingBig

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier

LoveLovingCrimeForgetting

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Andy Rooney

PeopleNeedThingsWorkersWhoMany

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

Michael Ian Black

FeelCareerI Feel LikeBeenLike

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

Merle Haggard

NatureWinterCarHouseWallSummer

I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing - there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.

Amy Chozick

FatherDreamsVanityPoliticians

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

Steven Spielberg

DaySunBackWantOne DayChina

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

Josh Tillman

LoveExperienceLove IsWritingBeen

I never defended the Bush administration's spending.

Scott Garrett

NeverAdministrationBushSpending

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