Michael Chabon Quotes

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Michael Chabon

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Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

Jim Parsons

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When you're 12 and, you know, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're playing blues, you get a lot of press.

Joe Bonamassa

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I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Matthew Goode

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My father loved people, children and pets.

Tony Visconti

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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Joseph Brodsky

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Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Christopher Hitchens

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But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Bruce Willis

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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Bryant H. McGill

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Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Armstrong Williams

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Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

Anthony Wayne

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To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.

Prodigy

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We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up.

Tyler Cowen

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