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Anatole Broyard Quotes

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Anatole Broyard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1920 - October 11, 1990

Topics

Love Looking Back Wait Looking Back

National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national 'I' in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change of lenses.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Change Debate Climate Change Focused

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

John Lennon

God Time Yourself You Down Temple

'Hug' is my mother's word for affection.

Robert Indiana

Mother Hug Affection Word

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

Mia Wasikowska

Character Step Puzzle You Out Final

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Good Singing Think Pretty I Think

I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.

Mia Goth

Love Time If I Could Film Working

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

Amor Towles

Memories Creative Energy Circles Own

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

Rob Halford

Yourself Someone Easy You Off Knock

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Rosanna Arquette

Business Music Become Big

A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.

Michele Bachmann

Free Process American Way Mean Out

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

Joyce Carol Oates

Writing Achieve Important Young Poet

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

DMX

Violence Difference Between Senseless