- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that's the stupidest thing you can do because people are so pretty in L.A.!
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
- Bad People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident. When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020