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Tracy Kidder Quotes

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 12, 1945

Topics

Live Reflection People Me Trying

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

Good People You Say Improv Going

A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible.

Robert Jeffress

Imagination Bible Immigrants Say

I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.

Life Motto Living No Regrets Try

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Work Time Responsibility Focus Team

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Always Out Up Position Grounded

Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board... focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity... most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It's liquidity that moves markets.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Focus People Looking Movement Market

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Wisdom Man Me Uncle Young Young Man

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

Coffee Police World Picture T-Shirt

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

Space Earth Take Would Large Headed

My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.

Mother People Name Her Most

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Good Book You Down Anchor Heavy

That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.

Great Woman City Create Movies Way

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