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Steve Erickson Quotes

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1950

Topics

Memory Reading Process Distance Now

In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.

Lawyers Career Way Politicians Zero

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

Rogier van der Heide

Light Darkness Design Interesting

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

Life Soul Connection Person Within

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

Job People Artist Go Places Where

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

Family Dog People Crazy Think Grow

Nobody likes Jews. You can't say people like Jews. We're not popular. We're too smart to be liked. But it has been unacceptable to express anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.

Miriam Margolyes

Smart People You Holocaust Nobody

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'

Heart Tired People Me Sick Look

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Christina Perri

Time Myself School Poetry Brother

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.

Christine McVie

Family Father Home Time House Come

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Resting Never Always Next Hungry

We usually have a rookie show when camp is almost over. It's a chance to get to know the rookies and to have fun and set the pace for the season.

Fun Have Fun Chance Know Over Get

Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

Atticus Shaffer

Funny Cool Nice Never She Her

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