"You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world."

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Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Brenna Yovanoff

#Names Quotes #Dancing Quotes #World Quotes

“You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to find out what sucks, you have to stop doing what sucks... you've gotta find out what you're doing right, and you've gotta do more of that.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.”
“I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.”
“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”
“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”

Source : "Somali Author Reflects on Conflict in Native Country". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 27, 2007.
“Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.”

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