John Edgar Wideman Quotes

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

Jim Lehrer

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In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

Joe Shuster

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I never think people are too careful with me.

Joan Didion

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I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Jessica Lange

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I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.

Stephen Karam

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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Roger Ebert

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One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

Michael Shermer

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We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

Doug Ducey

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I have led a pretty colorful life.

Corey Feldman

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For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Anne Lamott

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My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

Aubrey Peeples

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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Ken Livingstone

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