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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

Topics

Life Men Search Life Is A Get Most

I wouldn't ever classify myself as a singer. I see myself as a songwriter first.

Myself First See Singer I See Ever

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

Work Time Lawyer Arguing Glamorous

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

Work Think You Go Know Done

May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.

Rain Boots Back Down Socks Out

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

Music Time School You Know Young

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

Christian Find Say Always Cannot

I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.

School I Am Dress Me Try Sound

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Tomas Transtromer

Life Eyes My Life Anxiety Dark Way

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Poetry Writing Plan Living Write

Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph.

Relationship Bad Triumph Celebration

Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voice for justice for the people of Illinois and oftentimes the country - and I love it.

Love Justice People Me Voice Being

We're not as happy as our Instagrams and Twitters make us out to be.

Happy Out Us Make Our

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