Jonathan Lethem Quotes

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1964

Topics

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I don't leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.

Jenifer Lewis

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Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or went to bed way too late.

Matt Dillon

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Fernando Llorente has been very important for me. He gives me a lot of advice; we talk a lot. I will thank Fernando for my entire life because it's hard to find people like him, especially in the world of football.

Alvaro Morata

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I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.

Stanley Tucci

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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Soren Kierkegaard

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There are folks who now know black families - like the Johnsons on 'Black-ish' or the folks on 'Modern Family.' They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Michelle Obama

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It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

Missy Elliott

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All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.

Jason Day

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I just want Emma Thompson to be my best friend.

Janet Varney

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Cocktails and food are social.

Jon Taffer

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I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Denis Leary

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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

Pierre Loti

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