- Nov 07, 2020
Who Quotes
Quotes on who matters and why.
These quotes highlight who shaped someone or who stands out in a field - teenage musical influences, or the rarity of actors who combine action skills with classical theater training. Related reading includes He Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
- Mercedes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have old guys who aren't willing to be coached just like you can have young guys who aren't willing to be coached.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020