John Sladek Quotes

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

John Sladek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 15, 1937 - March 10, 2000

Topics

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I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

Jesmyn Ward

WritePainfulMemoirWouldKnew

I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.

Joel Grey

SlowLearnerVery

One should eat cumin every day!

Joel Robuchon

DayEvery DayEatShouldEvery

I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.

Andie MacDowell

GoodFunRisksCrazyHave FunCare

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

Andy Murray

MeWorldEventFarSporting Event

Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

Michael De Luca

HeartCultureNewTryEventsLine

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

Summer Sanders

FunnyLoveWaterMeFeelJump

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

Sonia Rykiel

PeopleThoughtEndKnowAnything

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

Bruce Beresford

WorkWatchesDirectorStageAudience

I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.

Seth Meyers

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I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.

Richard Flanagan

LifeBeautifulHateMy LifeWay

I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It's entirely plausible that it could be real. Yes it is! It doesn't take a huge stretch in the imagination to imagine that something may be living at the deepest depths of one of our oceans.

Rhys Darby

SeaImaginationFindLivingDeepest

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