Jared Diamond Quotes

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Jared Diamond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1937

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I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

Jo Brand

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Obviously, the closer you get to that moment, the more you start to realize 'this is the last year of my contract.'

Johnathan Joseph

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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

Javier Bardem

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As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Diogenes

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My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Dick Van Dyke

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There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

David Simon

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One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

Christopher Moore

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It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Clint Eastwood

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My respect for politicians has increased. It's hard work - even hard physical work.

Chrystia Freeland

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I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Antony Beevor

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Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Philip Massinger

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