Joseph O'Neill One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you. – Joseph O’Neill Cling Quotes Identity Quotes Immigrant Quotes Narratives Quotes Pluses Quotes Start Quotes Terms Quotes Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That’s the way I do it, anyway. It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.
EducationGrace GealeyRespectSocietyTrust In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here’s the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves. – Grace Gealey
Ava Max Sweet But Psycho’ blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It’s hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight. – Ava Max
Grayson Perry Artists have their very distinctive voices that theyve developed over a long period. It takes time to find your voice, your vocabulary of images, or whatever it is. – Grayson Perry
FaithSeth Shostak Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages. – Seth Shostak
Alexander McQueen There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game. – Alexander McQueen
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