Jay Parini Quotes

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

Jennifer Garner

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Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.

Angie Thomas

AgeResponsibilityMeWorldRight

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

Steve Gleason

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I love the efficiency of the Internet. If I come across something that I want to share right away, I can do it.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.

Josh Thomas

PeopleBad PeopleBadKnowSeeGot

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Douglas Horton

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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

Nicolas Cage

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For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

Justin Bartha

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My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Justin Sane

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I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

Herbie Hancock

WorkScienceWatchesAlwaysOut

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Eva Gabor

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