Jay Parini Quotes

It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

TimeStrongPlaceSeriouslyAnything

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Matt Reeves

ImaginationPeopleCreatingAnything

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

Sibel Kekilli

YourselfYouCanadaDifficultYears

When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's definitely a part of my personality.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

PersonalityMeColdYouStoneSee

It's not going to matter, but there's a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they're talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like.

Doug Baldwin

MeGameFeelTalkingBackKnow

He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

Christine Keeler

WomanWhyStillAnother WomanHe

When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.

Colin Jost

AgeChallengeI AmPeopleStartNow

I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

Brie Larson

WhyUnderstandMoreArtistsJust

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

Ari Graynor

ComedyTragedyEverydayNextExist

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

William Samuel Johnson

PassionGreatCuriosityMindsFirst

Sometimes a little kid will come up to me and ask me to show him some tricks. I always have to say: 'I can't do any tricks.' They want to see some sort of magic: keepie-uppies, around-the-worlds, that sort of thing. It's not really my strength.

Thomas Muller

StrengthMeMagicSometimesWant

'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants.

Kris Kristofferson

MoneyWarPeopleStoryBehavior

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Kin Hubbard

FoolYouReadySkinSayEverything

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