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Jonathan Raban Quotes

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: June 14, 1942

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Always Over May Being Denied Really

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Me Doing You Salary Satisfied Just

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

Time Mistakes Fearless Strong Learn

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Robert M. Pirsig

Alone Others Presence Even He

Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything.

Matthew Ashford

Life Walk Help You Clean She

I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem's adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.

School High School Think Trying You

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Romesh Gunesekera

Kind Side Been Decades Other Every

I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

Child Lesson Kind Run Write Used

If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

Love Drink Up Concert Things Watch

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

Life Character Relationship Moving

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Mother Me Speak Know Everything How

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Dorothea Benton Frank

Life Together I Am Process Find Way

I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story.

People Ideas You Meeting Need See

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