John Knowles Quotes

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

John Knowles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1926 - November 29, 2001

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When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

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I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

John Malkovich

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Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

Michael Arrington

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Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

Amity Gaige

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I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

Trevor Nunn

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Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Ruth Bernhard

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Traditionally, there's been a desire to make shows relatable so the maximum number of people would think of those characters as being recognizably like them. The risk there is you can push everything in a somewhat generic direction.

Roy Price

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There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

Michael Johnson

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By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.

Jean Craighead George

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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Josef Albers

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At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Jason Schwartzman

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An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

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