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Michael Korda Quotes

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Stars Write Get Memoir Movie

But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

Character Eyes Me World Think Logic

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.

Rest India Pretty Myth Indians Much

People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.

Tom Parker Bowles

Life People Rude Turn Life Goes On

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Robert D. Kaplan

Now Rome Days Empire Different

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Greatness Myths Michael Jackson Were

I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.

Change Long Same Room Being Like

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

Face Feel Urban Pop Indie Very

Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence.

Think You Golden Pork Tenderness

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

Deborah Harkness

Today People Night Reading Demons

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

People World Opportunities Someone

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

Doing Ice Know Element Exactly

Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social life.

Life Work People You Some People

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