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Donovan Quotes

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: May 10, 1946

Topics

Write Searching Always Different

You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

You Leaving Open Get Chin Points

The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.

Budget Year Top Office Real Over

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

Me Writing Book Think You Physics

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.

Apple Out Squeeze Your Cider Adam

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Character Someone Actor See Idea

As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I admire in that style tend to do omniscient narration.

Style Literature Artist Want Admire

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

Joyce Carol Oates

House Glass Nothing Protect Made

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Speak Perfect Kid Grandparents

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

Respect Fight Decency Who Howl His

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Opinion You Shapes Got Just Rather

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.

You Always Without High Greatest

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

World India Need Global Alternative

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