Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

Hanya Yanagihara

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I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleReadingBlackThinkPoor

Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.

Jenny Mollen

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I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Jeffrey Donovan

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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Tom Clancy

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Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

Monica Crowley

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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Chris Abani

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I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

Bootsy Collins

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Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

Arnold Palmer

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I like playing smart women very, very much because I definitely learn from them.

Autumn Reeser

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I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

Atifete Jahjaga

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There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

Norman Finkelstein

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Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

Rick Perry

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