Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

Hanya Yanagihara

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When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Jim Leach

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I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

Jesse Williams

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I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.

Jens Lekman

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It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Anita Ekberg

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My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.

Amy Tan

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I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!

Rita Rudner

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

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America wins when we trade and export and import.

Mike Pence

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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

Jonathan Levine

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I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Dick Van Dyke

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When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England.

Douglas Booth

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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

Chelsea Handler

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