Kristjan Raud Quotes & Sayings

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm. — Diplo

I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from. — Madeleine Roux

Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat. — Mark Leiren-Young

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them. — Salli Richardson

If you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere. — Tami Hoag

What does it take to change the essence of a man? — Steven Seagal

Every man is a new method. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them. — Paul Lockhart

Well, yeah. Fireworks, the seventh Shy Maiden to dance out of the tree, stuff like that. — Nils Nisse Visser

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. — John Cheever

WORKSHOP 1. Read your writing aloud to a friend. Ask, "Does this sound like me?" Discuss the response. 2. After rereading your work, make a list of adjectives that define your voice, such as heavy or aggressive, ludicrous or tentative. Now try to identify the evidence in your writing that led you to these conclusions. 3. Read a draft of a story aloud. Can you hear problems in the story that you could not see? 4. Save the work of writers whose voices appeal to you. Consider why you admire the voice of a particular writer. How is it like your voice? How is it different? In a piece of freewriting, imitate that voice. — Roy Peter Clark

I don't punish myself. Life's too short. — Keeley Hawes

We may live
at the end of the twentieth century, but people still believe in ghosts. — Paulo Coelho