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Jonathan Franzen Quotes

I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.

Jonathan Franzen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1959

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Positive People Me Upset Different

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

Mother Teacher New York Growing Up

A sketch is just a mini movie.

Sketch Just Mini Movie

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

Walk Powerful Earth Africa Nation

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

Amanda Seyfried

Cute Skinny Braces Model Naturally

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Think Reality About Speculate Exists

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

Life Time Myself Parents College Me

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

Mary Steenburgen

Life Decision My Life Big Been Made

If you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.

Walk Memory You Museum Country Want

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

Women Think Skirts Mini I Think Too

Get mad, then get over it.

Anger Mad Over Over It Get Then

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

Football Man Win Game Impossible

I was leader of the Opposition when Vajpayee was PM. We attacked policies, not personalities, neither inside or outside the House.

Leader House Inside Outside Neither

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