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Bob Shacochis Quotes

I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination.

Bob Shacochis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 9, 1951

Topics

Work Great Time Imagination Loss

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

Andrew Forrest

Politics Name Poor Politicians Get

Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

Maurice Allais

Education History Physics Finally

In my own private-sector work, I have become intrigued with RIWI, a Canadian based company that surveys random respondents on the Web to measure attitudes in otherwise hard-to-reach places.

Michael Hayden

Work Random Measure My Own Become

My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Work Speak Philosophy You Want Been

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Robert Bork

Great Sail Ship Shallow Deal Very

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Rita Mae Brown

Logic Intuition Impatience Suspension

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Rita Mae Brown

Writing Hollywood Thirty Ability Did

Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.

Rory MacLean

Good Vision Travel Destination Door

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

Ry Cooder

Hate Flying Hard Hotels Travelling

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

Rupert Evans

People Look Done Admire Always Who

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Great Think Built I Think Rejections

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

David Walliams

Voice Born Why Kid Him Over