Jimmy Breslin Quotes

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

Jimmy Breslin

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I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

Jermaine Fowler

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The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

Michael Jai White

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Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it.

Tori Kelly

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What I've been saying to people is, you need to think about mobile as your new flagship. It's the place everybody goes to first.

Mindy Grossman

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I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.

Donald Hall

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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

Anthony Powell

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I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

Sharon Jones

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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Muhammad Iqbal

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I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Julie Taymor

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In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

Julian Casablancas

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I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

Jan Karon

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I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

Gregory Benford

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