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Russell Hoban Quotes

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1925 - December 13, 2011

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Man Chance You Nervous System Being

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

John Maynard Smith

Think Talking Because Jargon I Think

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Myself Choose Person Will Way Write

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

Work Business Wish Creating Movies

For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination.

Stephen Baldwin

Brother People Me Crazy Think Born

You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

Doing You Just Because Know Say

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Mikhail Gorbachev

World Think Goal Need Russia China

What you're seeing is tension that we've seen for years between President Erdogan and his military, his military being more secular, President Erdogan being a little more in the Islamist side of the house.

You Seeing House President More

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

Community Trying Hip-Hop Eat Up Get

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Great Time Water Fire Intelligence

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

Tired Enjoy Right Lived Recording

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

Music Building Play Sometimes Jokes

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Life Age My Life Serious Young Like

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