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John Berger Quotes

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Walls Book Voice Story Place Will

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

Andrew Cuomo

New York Direction Look New States

When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

John Lithgow

School Accomplishment Think Remember

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Time World Things Happen First Time

I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.

Jeff Garlin

Love Great Movies Freak I Love

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

Stanley Donen

Myself Think Kind Director I Think

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.

Tom Cullen

Choices Think Interesting Someone Up

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

Robert Wilkie

Never Experienced Communal Private

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Mike Nichols

Service Comedy You Movies Reason

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

Mickey Gilley

Know Knife Count How Drawer

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

Jonathan Sacks

Good God Time Culture Spiritual

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

Dolores O'Riordan

School You Play Class Whistle How

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Derek Bok

Construction Proud Year Situation