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Robert Giroux Quotes

Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'

Robert Giroux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1914 - September 5, 2008

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Me Start Early New London First

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

John Buchanan Robinson

Business Money Credit Bank Nowadays

I'm very lucky to have a very nurturing, close family.

Jeremy Strong

Family Lucky Close Nurturing Very

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

John Edward Redmond

Know Irish Fraud Years Act Force

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

Max McKeown

Change You Rules More Successful

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

Jeff Miller

Great People Process Democratic Only

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

Amy Weber

Car Ride Road Doing Country Go

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

Sparky Anderson

Good Start Seasons Beginnings

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

Robert Conrad

Gun You Know Shoe Out Little

I get bored in Hollywood.

Rosie Perez

Hollywood Bored Get

I just really like being with my sister.

Milly Shapiro

Sister Being Just Like Really

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

Jonathan Brandis

Me Think Friends Silly Too Much

For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

Dennis Farina

Mind Eye Think Reason Out Diamond