Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

Ottessa Moshfegh

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A winning effort begins with preparation.

Joe Gibbs

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For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.

Jenny Zhang

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I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

Matthew McConaughey

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You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

Anna Held

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I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

Sue Townsend

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The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Simon Winchester

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I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

Rob Zombie

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Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.

Robin Thede

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I love Charles Fuller.

Rutina Wesley

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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.

Mary Beard

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I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

Mike Quade

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Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

Michael Rosenbaum

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