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Jay Parini Quotes

The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Letters Invention Century Most Poems

I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.

John Cameron Mitchell

Music Think You Rock Kid Roll

Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Today Effort People Me Honor Feel

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Women Dinner Saying Think Comedy

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Love People Me Listening Urgency

By the work one knows the workman.

Jean de La Fontaine

Work Knows Workman

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

Voice Write Head Because Get Who

We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.

Early House Wrong Nobody Anything

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Honesty Food Identity End Tradition

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

Television Always Film Would Found

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens

Education Children Religion Me Found

I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.

Work Enough Lucky Little Little Bit

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Painting Bad Dream Done Two Here

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