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Tom Perrotta Quotes

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Great Football School Team Writing

It's so easy as a child to identify with 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The humour doesn't talk down at you. It's a very grown up humour - a little bit ironic, a bit self deprecating.

Child Self Easy You Down Talk

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

Education Power Art Eye Hand

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

Sonny Bill Williams

Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there's nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms.

Nothing Never Mushroom Mushrooms Off

I loved doing Supergirl, but I would love to do Batgirl. I would absolutely love to do a live-action Batgirl!

Love Loved Doing Would Absolutely

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Knowledge Art Man Practice Secrets

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Big Fingers Text Too

I get to do comedy for a living.

Comedy Living Get

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Never Reporter Humorist Pretended

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Style Practice Writing Start Road

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

Family Good Job Finding Late Jail

I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'

Me Thinking Will Always Disappear

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