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Tony Hillerman Quotes

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1925 - October 26, 2008

Topics

Great College Win Graduation Back

Humankind has mainly evolved in Africa, and we only left Africa very, very late in our evolutionary path. This means that there is very little genetic diversity among those who left Africa and very much genetic diversity among those who stayed.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Path Diversity Late Africa Little

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Jenni Rivera

Negative You Up Because Get Caught

The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.

John Edgar Wideman

History Book Wake Up Reading Trying

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

Andy Serkis

Time Writing Long Long Time Been

I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.

John Waters

Myself Night Week Sometimes Movies

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

Trent Reznor

Business Music Technology People You

When I took over 'New Mutants,' writing and drawing, and I figure this is a big deal, I'm 23, 22 at that time, and I am nervous because I've had nothing but success. And now they're giving me the entire platform to create. And I figure, if I fall flat on my face here, it's going to hurt. It's going to set me back.

Rob Liefeld

Success Time I Am Me Writing Face

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Joyce Meyer

Day Every Day Will Return Us Closer

We need to keep in mind the well-established fact that the full effects of monetary policy are felt only after long lags. This means that policy makers cannot wait until they have achieved their objectives to begin adjusting policy.

Janet Yellen

Mind Wait Long Need Policy Begin

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Chris O'Dowd

Great Creative Process Doing Want

I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

Claire Messud

Life Work Hard Work Truth Justice

If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'

Brian Binnie

School People Me Stupid Fly Chance