"After I finished college, I got a job……" — Philipp Meyer
"After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel."
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23 Quotes by Philipp Meyer
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You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of…
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No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.
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The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from…
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She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to…
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Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
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Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
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We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had…
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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we…
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Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
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My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind…
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I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.
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When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior…
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and…
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going…
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding…
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson…
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
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