John Dos Passos Quotes

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

John Dos Passos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1896 - September 28, 1970

Topics

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Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.

Joaquin Castro

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My hair is my protection.

Jessica White

HairProtection

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

Andrae Crouch

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I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Mayer Hawthorne

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

PatiencePeopleYearHealthyOwn

If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.

Roger Ailes

PeopleYouPlayGoKnowGames

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols

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Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.

Michael Storm

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If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Michael Merzenich

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I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

Louise Jameson

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Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

Jordan Peele

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I'm ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?

Deontay Wilder

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