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Michael Chabon Quotes

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

Michael Chabon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 24, 1963

Topics

Father Time Grief Memory Speak Up

I get a lot of fan mail from girls. It's interesting because it's not just the U.S. - you get things from people all over the world. They send these postage stamps and you're like, 'Where do you live?' It's crazy. I'll get letters from the troops, too.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Live People Crazy World Interesting

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Good Creative Ideas Thinking Thought

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

John Hughes

Forward Comfortable Always Heroes

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

Stephen Root

Work New York Television Goal New

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

Tonya Harding

Me Loved You Tiger Go Skating

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

Ron Moody

Dance Step Back Know Kid Been

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

Jarvis Cocker

Myself Control Wrong Create Lost

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

Don Cooper

Opinion Decisions White Everything

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Chevy Chase

Smart Think Person Washington Never

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Alfred Korzybski

Forgiveness God Nervous System May

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Arthur Smith

Travel Book Better Walking My Own

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

Paula Radcliffe

Me Problem Trying Bad Feeling Where