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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 12, 1943

Topics

Relationship Mind Book Patient Only

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

Struggle Words Writing Argument Same

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Andrew Sean Greer

Time People Think Anxiety Innocence

Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.

Michael Chiklis

Great World Think Why Up Collective

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

I Am People Find Try Out Etiquette

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

Work Girl I Am Me Body Superior

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Day Generation Fighting Every Day

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Job Pain Parents Feel Accomplish

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

Joseph Stiglitz

Economics Winner First Economists

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

Life Work Good Teacher School Mom

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.

Focus People Me Cinema Sometimes

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

Winter Fire Night Song Cozy Know

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

Anthony Anderson

Actor Turn Switch

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