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Tom Perrotta Quotes

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Tom Perrotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

College Bible Reading Wild Pretty

There is nothing like watching the woman you are in love with make a baby, make a miracle! It is one hell of a ride, and I am only seven months in. Time is flying by, but I am taking it all in. It is the most important thing that I have ever been a part of in my life.

Matt Cohen

Life Love Time Ride Woman I Am

There are a lot of thought leaders who don't want to see their students. We don't want to hire them. If students are allured to come to the school because of famous faculties, and if they never see them, that leaves very bad taste.

John Quelch

School Thought Famous Bad Want See

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Troy Polamalu

Positive Myself Challenge Me Better

I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

Logan Lerman

Work Myself Me Crazy Idiot Look

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Denis Diderot

Father God Children Little Apples

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Chris Abani

Work Writing Living Will Him Writer

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Christopher Nolan

Architecture Job Me Filmmaking Only

'Final Countdown' would be a welcomed tune, even as a competitor.

Cody Rhodes

Final Competitor Would Even Tune

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

Cindy Sherman

Story Tease Must Promise Still

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

Clara Mamet

Community Day School Jewish Little

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Good Power People Say Want Tell

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Allen Tate

Society Desire Personal Become Poet