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Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Garth Risk Hallberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

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America Week Fall Living Poet Where

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

Humble Day Trying You Every Day How

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.

John Burnham Schwartz

I Am People Me Saying Kind Begin

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Michael Jackson

Me Pride End Know Try Okay

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.

You Know Actor Hammer Out Guy

I owe it to my children to secure their future.

Future Children Secure Owe

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Power Balance Society End Someone

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

Music Heart Saying Letters Going

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

Stars Personality World You Look

If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose it right away. But sometimes I do a role where I have to gain weight, and I can tell you I prefer that.

Monica Bellucci

Fish You Lose I Can Vegetables Meat

One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

Creative People Interesting You New

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

Together End Doing You Line Head

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Work Today Will Years 100 Years

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