Dani Shapiro Quotes

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

Dani Shapiro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1962

Topics

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It is a little weird seeing photographs from parties where you didn't even know a photographer was there.

Jessie Buckley

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We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

John Hench

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I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Ruth Rendell

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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

Mary McFadden

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When I watch movies with my kid like 'Shrek,' I'm like, 'Wow, this is pretty funny.' That's why I wanted to start doing movies like that - so my kid would laugh at my jokes.

Michael Pena

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Eat a wide variety of species.

Michael Pollan

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With the notable exceptions of rum drinks, black beans, fat brown cigars, the smiles of pretty girls, hot yellow sunlight, and fat men with guitars and bongos playing mambos, rumbas, and boleros late into the night, nothing in Cuba comes easily.

Jonathan Miles

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I really love traveling to Japan.

Christina Aguilera

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I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Coco Lee

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The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

Ashwin Sanghi

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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

Alicia Keys

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For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

Alix Smith

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