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Joseph Jacobs Quotes

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: australian
Birth: August 29, 1854 - January 30, 1916

Topics

Tradition Body Heroes Nowhere Large

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Life Opportunities You Afraid Up

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

Animals True Intelligent Real Seen

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

Addiction Anarchy Aspire Laws Only

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

You Look Say Same Competence United

'Midnight Special' is, like 'Starman', a government chase film - in the government chase film genre - about a boy who has special powers and the government agents' quest to find him.

Government Find Boy Special Him

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Writing Famous Plan Long I Can Want

Some people in the industry warned me that I'd ruin my career, miss out on possible jobs, and potentially put my life in danger if I ever came out.

People Appreciate Opinions Dignity

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

Father Myself School Waiting College

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

Me Phone Feelings Go Sometimes

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

Family View Important More Get

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new.

You New Chicken Will Human Chickens

I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy.

Think Reality Successful Rooted Very

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