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Julia Glass Quotes

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 23, 1956

Topics

People Me Vocation Share Call Avoid

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

John C. Calhoun

Mistakes Learn Build Your Successes

I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.

School Writing Television Drama Go

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

You Want Always Heroes Saw Like

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.

Sail World America Doing Year Teach

They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.

Ritchie Blackmore

Life Time School Window My Life Out

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

Music Nice First Finish Industry

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

Freedom I Am Me Thought Meaning Act

I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.

More Little Theory Fringe Case Sort

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Michael Scheuer

Violence Inside Most Least Noticed

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

Thinking You Too Much Go Improvise

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

Wish Remember You Too Much True

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

Good Food Good Food Feel Privilege

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