Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

Garth Risk Hallberg

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RoadUniversityUpRuralTobacco

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

Max Brooks

LivePeopleWritingNightSaturday

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.

RJ Cyler

New ThingsMeFindingI CanPerson

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Mary Lyon

YouChooseNobodyGoLaborFields

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

MeLikeEnsembleBlandTerm

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

Josh Duhamel

WifeYouKnowWillSheDogs

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

Jon Anderson

FearWomenBusinessBestMoneyMen

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Derek Blasberg

LifePeopleCityFastMannersUp

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

Debra Monk

FamilyMoneyFunSupportPeopleYou

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

Christopher Gorham

SchoolHigh SchoolKnowTeachHigh

I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.

Bret Stephens

TimeCityCountryDictatorshipOil

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

Sean Spicer

TimeMistakesMediaWrongSomething

You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.

Marlon Wayans

LifeLuckYouLuckyNeedYour

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