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Michael Palmer Quotes

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

Michael Palmer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 9, 1942 - October 30, 2013

Topics

Great Fun People Story Think End

It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.

Jim Flaherty

You More Wear Given Ties Frugal

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Jim Carrey

Success Character I Am People Care

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

Joanna Newsom

Live Respect Great School Me High

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Anatoli Boukreev

I Am Questions Answer Because Cannot

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

John Madden

Day Team Bad Day You Bad Mud

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

John Travolta

Life Unhappy You Choose Early Know

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Steve Buscemi

Me Know Review Mail Dig Junk

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.

Sue Hubbell

Good Cats Fierce Survival Evolution

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Sienna Miller

Nature Human Nature Achieve Hard

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

Trinny Woodall

You Way Audience Behave Order Big

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

Tom Sturridge

Character Someone Speech You Right

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Mathew Baynton

Love Day Yourself Doing You Career