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Michael Korda Quotes

From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time More Never False Charisma Than

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

Age Great Money I Am Movies Need

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Good Future Science Wait Reading

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Daily God People Speak Think Better

Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

Support People Chef Small Trying

Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.

Michael Specter

Life Effort Biology Up Modern Four

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Experience Me Challenges Comfort Zone

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Good Discipline Best You Young Tell

I loved the seventies.

Diane von Furstenberg

Loved Seventies

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

Christopher Lee

Time Me Someone Play Milk Tell

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.

Fear Freedom World Political Loss

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Anthony Collins

Myself Man I Am Me Believe Opinions

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Peter Sarsgaard

Sand Easy Acting Circumstances Grain

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