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John Berger Quotes

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

Topics

Time Experience Village Chosen Our

A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.

People Me Career Dream Achieve True

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

Discipline Right Person Believe Cry

Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

John Mellencamp

People Place Kind Run Nashville

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Women History Woman Thoughts Writing

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

Walk People Direction End Always Up

I admire Roger Federer, not only for his tennis but also for his personality.

Personality Admire Tennis Only His

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

Fun Think Insanity Say Him Planet

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

Sports More Complex Becoming Common

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.

Freedom Responsibility Constitution

Dad passed away in 2000, but he visits me all the time. He comes to me in different ways. So I have that connection with him, and that comforts me, to know that in time I can come back and still have that with my kids. It's not unfamiliar to me, that connection with the afterlife. I know it's real; I experience it all the time.

Deborah Mailman

Time Experience Me Connection Back

If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it's meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Life Reflection Experience Fairy Tale

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

Life Wisdom Football Words Poetry

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