Robert Caro Quotes

I finish what I have to do in the office.

Robert Caro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 30, 1935

Topics

OfficeFinish

A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

Andrew Davies

YearGoOfficeOverProducerLived

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

IntelligenceInstinctIncapable

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

Tom Hodgkinson

WorkDayWritingReadingBurden

What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

Joseph Fiennes

PeopleListeningDoingFindHand

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.

Jon Bellion

GoodMeBandI Was RaisedGenreSum

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Dennis Prager

BehaviorHuman BehaviorHumanSingle

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

Drake Bell

LoveSingingSongwritingJust

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

MyselfDoingBadMoreLikeReally

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Anthony Collins

EnoughWillEqualThingsAlike

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

Allison Janney

WomenPlayingGetRolesConsidered

I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.

Wolfgang Paul

LifeFatherResearchMedicineEarly

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz

PowerTeacherAuthorityShould

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