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Robert B. Parker Quotes

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Robert B. Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1932 - January 18, 2010

Topics

College Me Same Out Little Gone

It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.

Growing Up Bad Target Growing Living

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Wind Book Reality You Sometimes Up

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have to have someone to share it with.

Win Someone You Why Share Anyone

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

Myself Opportunities Face Surprise

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

Music Pink Reason Things Beatles

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

Great People Year Accomplish New

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

Family Truth Myself Childhood Me

Workers are most likely to save for retirement if they have access to a workplace savings plan and are automatically enrolled in that plan.

Retirement Plan Workplace Savings

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.

Learning Good New York Me Acting

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

College Student Status Quo Never Got

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

Girl Do The Right Thing People Right

I don't like closed systems.

Like Closed Systems

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