Marv Levy Quotes

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

Marv Levy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1925

Topics

PeopleBookToughDownPlaceWant

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

LoveRelationshipGreatChildMom

Football players are creative when they're in the moment.

John David Washington

MomentFootballCreativePlayers

Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.

Matthew Desmond

ManCityTalkingPoorTalkRight

Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.

Jeb Bush

PeopleBelieveWayToo Many People

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Merle Haggard

MoneyPeopleWantMoreForceFeed

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Amanda Plummer

GirlSchoolPoetryPeopleWorldTry

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

Steven Spielberg

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You'd be surprised how many fans I think are from 'The Bachelorette' will come up and say something about football.

Jordan Rodgers

FootballThinkYouSayWillFans

I recognise the pure gold that runs in Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's work for 'Outnumbered' on TV. And on radio, I really enjoy John Finnemore.

Denis Norden

WorkGoldEnjoyRadioPureGuy

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

Colum McCann

ValueMeThinkLiteratureGoTell

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.

Corita Kent

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