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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

Michael Ondaatje

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Busy Archaeology Writer

When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

Work Fun Easy You Chemistry Call

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Failure Christian You Human Being

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Believe Glory I Believe Creator Us

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks.

Suki Waterhouse

Health Tea London Afternoon Just

I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that.

Steven Van Zandt

Love Soul People Idea Like Around

I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better the human condition - whether it's System of a Down, or Rage Against the Machine, or Public Enemy, or the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, or Pete Seeger. It's a group that I'm proud to be counted among.

Hope Art Proud Think Better Down

I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

Work Good Time Angel Believe Think

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.

Brother Sister Lawyer Artist Who

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

Friend Mother Great Parents Nothing

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

Work Myself Day Space Thinking Real

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.

Homeless Friends You Know Out Lived

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Strength Day Tradition Enough You

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