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Michael Korda Quotes

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

Michael Korda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 8, 1933

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Book Movies Editing Pleasure Big

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Good Action Inevitable Mark Appears

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.

Robert Hilburn

Comeback American Rock Thanks Made

Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.

Mike Pence

Women Power Children Men People End

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

Judy Garland

Perspective Me Book Think Right

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

Jaromir Jagr

Best World Hockey Goal Play Because

9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years.

Jonathan Powell

Time Feel America New First Time

The thing I love about President Trump is he's really focused on helping business succeed.

Dennis Muilenburg

Love Business Succeed Focused He

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

Deval Patrick

Life Hope Community Yourself Climb

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Chuck Barris

Business Show Business Entertaining

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Annie Dillard

Time Writing Die You Person Say

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Community Caring No Sense Without

I love to both give and receive very old books.

Augusten Burroughs

Love Old Give Books Very Old Books