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Jay Parini Quotes

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Brain Survival Connected Ability Us

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.

Good Energy Story Think You First

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I Am Care Hold Who Highest Them

America in 2016 is on the path to becoming what Germany was in 1867.

Path America Becoming Germany

One of the things I realised as I learned to manage a rehearsal room is that the best idea always has to win, and it doesn't matter where the idea comes from.

Best Win Matter Always Room Things

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

Government Moving New Policy East

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Past Fiction In The Past Historical

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

Townsend Harris

Country President First Peculiar

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

Travis Bradberry

Happiness Great People World Impact

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Love Experience Politics Love Is You

I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

Love I Am Color Doubt No Doubt Mac

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

Family Truth Myself Purpose Me View

Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I'll sign for free.

Me Free Contract Give Me Give Just

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