"People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Joel Stein

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Identity Quotes

“As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later”
“The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.”
“No one is going to buy a big phone.”
“I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.”
“And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they areÂ citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forcedÂ to buy insurance because they are citizens.”
“When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
“That's just a stressful way to live - saying, 'OK who's doing great, who's doing better than me?' ... Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.”
“Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.”

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