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Jerry Leiber Quotes

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1933 - August 22, 2011

Topics

Humor Black Things Stories Those

Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.

Life Positive Attitude Start You

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

Day School Writing Night High School

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Work World You Television Want

The next wave of the social graph is empowering services like Airbnb and Lyft that give people the chance to have that physical interaction. People are more open to that because of Airbnb. Airbnb took couch surfing and took an additional step.

Step People Chance Wave More Open

I'm not the kind of person that sits around kind of envisioning things.

Person Kind Things Around

For the dead there are no more toils.

Dead More Toils

Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard.

Good Choices Proud Interesting Bad

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

Good Character Story Interesting

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Anthony Bourdain

Car Time Writing Kitchen Furniture

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

Focus Romance Other Novel Characters

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

Winter Snow Child Me Small Deep

I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.

Live New York Friends Lost New Some

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