"Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment when I lived there. The sense of possibility. I was also trying to find a way to write about Jonestown. I had read about it a lot and I had the sense that the story could really start to drive one over the edge."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Danzy Senna

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.”
“I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.”
“If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.”
“Football is my life. There is no question about that.”
“A career is measured over the course of the years, not moments. Over good decisions, over successes, not moments, failures, missteps, or bad comments. I learned that I needed to take a step back and look at my career not in that one moment that made me feel really bad, but what I had done not even in the past one or two years or last one or two hires, but that that career is built over many, many, many, many successive quarters and years and good decisions - never, ever made in that one moment where you felt really bad.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it.”
“No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.”

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