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Tom Perrotta Quotes

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Tom Perrotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1961

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Process Feel Year Know Way Write

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

Jessye Norman

Love Music Singing Jazz Over Open

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

Andrew Solomon

Life Business Depression Feel Person

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

Andre Geim

Live Long Dead

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

Experience Outside Through Spy Like

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Traveler Only Who Foreign Lands

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

Matt Hardy

Wife Think Anything Incredible

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

Steven Berkoff

Too Much More Elegant Whatever Would

The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.

Romy Madley Croft

Everything Sing Lyrics Written

I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine. I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio.

Mike Vogel

Hate Routine Up Normal Things Very

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

Michael Rooker

Work Remember You Know Will See

I can't sleep the first night in a hotel room.

Michael Keaton

Sleep Night Hotel First Room

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Antony Gormley

Business Art Blame Think Movies