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Louis Begley Quotes

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

Louis Begley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 6, 1933

Topics

Me Writing Long More Tell Up

I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful.

Tracy Chapman

Beautiful Me Think Play Try Ukulele

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Robbie Williams

Hope Great Cool Writing Think Want

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Ron Howard

Time Trying Long Look Long Time

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

Roy Ayers

Father Mother Music People Me Up

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Louis Jordan

Blues Jump Band Everything Big Made

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Chris Jordan

Live Art Politics Ideas Performance

It can't be all serious at all times.

Corey Hawkins

Serious Times

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

Alison Owen

Nature Good Death People Want Taxes

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

Paul Watson

Plants Problems Lose Find Lost More

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

Shemar Moore

Obstacles Career Just Because Admire

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Giorgio de Chirico

Work Dreams Art Childhood Broken

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Graydon Carter

Day Simple Year Every Day Nothing