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Michael Korda Quotes

It is hard to celebrate the past in an ecumenical way, or even in a fair-minded one, apparently. The trouble with the past is not just that it's behind us, it's that it is not even over yet.

Michael Korda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Past Celebrate Trouble Way Hard Us

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

John B. Hood

Sacrifice Brave Battle Soldiers Must

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

Jennifer Aniston

Luck Out Where Here Computer Really

I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life.

John Travolta

Life Family Me Singing Ups And Downs

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

Stephen Sondheim

Doubt New Matter Project Single

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Steve Martin

Love Woman Crystal Out Something

My decision was to go abroad, especially after winning the World Cup, and to go to Madrid was perfect. I was 100 per cent convinced of it.

Toni Kroos

Decision Winning World Perfect Go

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

Communication Community Understanding

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

Logic

Time You Want Always Something Get

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

True Everything Line Almost Really

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Colm Toibin

Style Practice Writing Start Road

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Brenda Holloway

Time Build Policy Act Motown

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Say Talk Never Used About Neither