Quotes About Raw

Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.

however, I couldn't pass up a Saint-Marcellin from La Mère Richard, a spark plug of a woman who's built a whole life on aging these small, puffy raw cow's milk cheeses from the Dauphiné region to perfection and who has a stand in the main market of Lyon.

Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My voice is raw by the time I finish.

Close to my heart is Muddy Waters. I love the way he sang. It was almost like a bark. It was like the bark of a dog: it's not fancy. Sometimes it's not like singing; it's like shouting.

I absolutely love sushi.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

I'm a big sushi fan.

You come to these thresholds in your life where you need to remember why you do what you do, to reconnect with yourself. When I look back at something like 'Raw Like Sushi,' I think I was very much in the right place at the right time.

I could probably eat sushi every day.

I love sushi!

The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.

When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.

She'd expected some backlash; it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo… If this was only a portion of Nico's pain… how could he bear it?

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Crotch-punchingly real!

I prefer noodles when they're raw, they taste just as good, but reward you with a satisfying crunch...

Instinct is older than paper, wilder than words.

Gee whiz, it's all fucking heart- breaking

The magic in any art is not only in its technique but in its authenticity. Truth in its rawest form is what resonates most powerfully.

Am I that hard to understand? Or is it just that they don't want to understand me, people like Glynne Barrett, who curate their wardrobes and fuss over websites and run from anything raw and unplanned, as though my type of pain were catching?

I'm real. I'm not polished.