Clive Sinclair Quotes

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Clive Sinclair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 19, 1948

Topics

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It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

Megan Park

CharacterInterestingYouPlayKind

America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.

Sukarno

AmericaYouGoSheSideHer

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.

Siri Hustvedt

LifeMomentWritingThinkParis

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

Tracy Letts

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To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

Rory MacLean

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Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.

Ron White

MotherBlueSheFineJustLikes

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Mike Weir

GolfYouLittleMissGoingBite

I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.

Miriam Margolyes

TheatreThinkLiteratureYouMean

There's a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants - trousers, actually: 'pants' in English means underwear - because most shows don't operate that way. Network shows are repetitive.

Jordan Gavaris

FlyingWayPantsUnderwearEnglish

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

Denis Leary

PeopleRestStrangersFirefighters

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

Bruce Willis

WorkGreatDayMeFriendsHelp

For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.

Bob Iger

GrowEnoughCreatorUsJustJust Be

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