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Tracy Kidder Quotes

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Tracy Kidder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Beginning Effort Book You Find

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Age Common Sense Next Common Sense

Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.

Amy Jackson

Family Travel Me Feel Thanks Cut

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert Altman did.

Stephen Karam

Good People Group Out Been Would

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Tony Curtis

Wife Woman Enough Dead Old Caught

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

Russell Simmons

Change Business Smart People Me You

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

Roy Lichtenstein

Work Nature Art Perception Saying

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

RuPaul

Love I Am People Think Matter Image

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Louis Malle

Work Story Key You Find Will

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

Dennis Quaid

Mother People Growing Up Thought

I'm on the phone with this guy, and he says to me, 'People compare you to Bruce Springsteen. I don't think you've written a song as good as 'Dancing in the Dark' or 'I'm on Fire.'' And all I could think was, 'Me neither!'

Brian Fallon

Good Fire People Me Song Think

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

Sheryl Sandberg

Women Woman Never Lot Worked

My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.

Seth Meyers

Father Mother Age Beautiful Woman