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Robertson Davies Quotes

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Robertson Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995

Topics

Write Difficult Difficult Task Task

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Work Marriage Best Two Always

The musicians in the band, and myself as a performer, love the risks of the unpredictable and the feeling of jumping off cliffs musically.

Jenny Scheinman

Love Myself Risks Musicians Feeling

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Life Attitude People Someone You

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

Community Think Battle Fighting Play

The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us.

Work Capitalism Trouble Damn Out Us

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Learning Sports Childhood Start You

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to reduce the cost, you're not going to see them implemented unless there is a path of unlimited subsidies, and that's not doable, either. We can kick-start the research process, but we have to do that from a position of economic strength.

Work Strength Path Research Process

My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.

Challenge People Ideas Unique

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

Music Listen Almost Vocal

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

Thankful Parents Me Feel Attention

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Life Walk You Point Playing Paid

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Learning Genius Too Much Spirit Who

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