Jay Parini Quotes

A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

Jeremy Corbyn

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I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Megyn Kelly

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They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.

Stephen Hough

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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

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We've had a steady diet of that PG-13 entertainment. It's the best vanilla you can buy. It's delicious, but it's getting kind of samey.

Rob Liefeld

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Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

Rod Carew

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The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

Jose Ferreira

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It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Dizzy Gillespie

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Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.

Brigitte Nielsen

New YorkSmallBetterYouNewOut

I don't understand that if you look wonderful, does that make you less important, less powerful, less serious?

Anna Wintour

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I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

Shane Filan

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I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

Thomas Mallon

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