Jonathan Carroll Quotes

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Jonathan Carroll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1949

Topics

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Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

Andrzej Wajda

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When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Amy Klobuchar

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I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

Stark Sands

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By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Sri Chinmoy

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The IndyMac name had a lot of brand recognition - maybe for the wrong reasons, but there was recognition.

Steve Mnuchin

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Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.

Simon Rattle

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We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

Mike Lowry

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When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen offices in Germany and Austria.

Michael Korda

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As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Claire Messud

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If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

Brian Helgeland

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Bodhidharma

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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Anupam Kher

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