John Edgar Wideman Quotes

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1941

Topics

TruthPeopleTrueRiskFairFiction

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

LifeLivePeopleThinkMy Life

Looking back, letting my hair go natural was an amazing decision because I started getting major ad campaigns. I also signed with agencies in Europe and travelled to many different cities, which I loved. People would stop me in the street and say they loved my hair!

Maye Musk

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I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

Angie Thomas

TimeThinkSomeoneFeelingMoreUs

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

Sue Johanson

YouKnowGetAbout

The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is that that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.

Mike Medavoy

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I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.

Michael W. Smith

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Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

Jason Robert Brown

LoveMeConnectionSittingWhySame

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Joseph Rotblat

PassionScienceDaysHadEarliest

Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.

Don Rickles

LifeGoodTimeMeInfluenceName

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

Dick Cavett

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My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

Christine Keeler

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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Conrad Black

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