Nathan Englander It’s so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman’s story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality. – Nathan Englander Aesthetically Quotes Creatively Quotes Easy Quotes Emotionally Quotes Failed Quotes Gay Quotes Jewish Quotes Obligation Quotes Rule Quotes Story Quotes Universal Quotes Universality Quotes Womans Quotes When I wrote my novel, ‘The Ministry of Special Cases,’ I couldn’t even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have. I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I think in Yiddish. To this day, I have to go back and unravel my writing and polish it so everyone doesn’t sound like an old Jewish woman.
Michael Paterniti Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about ‘the Land of the Eagles,’ relax. You’re not alone. – Michael Paterniti
Jorma Taccone I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path. – Jorma Taccone
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren’t many historical stories about people like me. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Louis de Broglie The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted. – Louis de Broglie
Stephen J Dubner People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We’ve heard about a lot – doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness. – Stephen J Dubner
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