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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Been Being Family Generations Identify Jewish Observant

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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Aesthetic Approach Being Certain Concerns Constant Different Each Figuring How Ideas Invent Love New New World Novelist Out Problems Project Series Set Stay Story Structural Tell Thing World You I Love

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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: About Anxiety Bad Being Being Honest Comfortable Entirely Honest Lot Parent People Seen Still Subjects Think I Think

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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Always Barriers Being Career Coming Control Create Editors Gatekeepers Having Hip-Hop Industry Lot Mindset Other Out Over Own Paradox People Publishers Where Your

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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Because Being Culture Jewish Race Religion Some Think Unique Ways I Think

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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Ability About Another Because Being Country Europe Every German Good Good Reason Hear Heritage Identify Jew Jewish Jews Kicked National Never One Time Other Out Places Plenty Polish Reason Say Saying Something Time Well Were Without You

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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Bed Being Bit Delayed Departure Frustrating Get Goes Kid Little Little Bit Maybe Particularly Partner Time You Your Yourself

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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Artistic Being Big Big Part Certain Gives Humor Jewish Level Literary Me Part Sensibility Take Think World I Think

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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

~Adam Mckay

Topics: About Area Bankruptcy Barack Being Bush Fundamentalism George George W George W. Bush Guns Him House Other Plants Poor Record Religious Roast Sail Selling Silver Silver Spoon Speak Spoon Talks Than Tropical Weeks White White House

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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

~Adam Mckay

Topics: Able America Article Being Bum Country Feel Genuine Giving Gut Identify Itself Leaders Nation Our Shooter Someone Steer Straight Us

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