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Bob Shacochis Quotes

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

Bob Shacochis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Best Humanity You Place Want Bring

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

Jennifer Granholm

Support Democracy Name You Person

We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.

Ami Bera

Better Politicians Hold Accountable

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.

Sonny Sandoval

Rock And Roll Edge Rock Become More

There were a lot of stereotypes that I had to break of how people in the entertainment industry do business.

Troy Carter

Business People Stereotypes Break

I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'

Mary Gaitskill

Marriage Thought Political Want Why

The value of a good education has never left me.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Education Good Value Me Never Left

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

Brian Azzarello

Good Struggle People Bad People Bad

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

Bob Newhart

Funny Knowledge You Important Say

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

Bryan Batt

Ideas Night Wake Up Up Middle Wake

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson

Education Knowledge Men Poetry Learn

My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.

Shahid Kapoor

Work Job Feel Comfort Create Actor

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

Shane Claiborne

Life Best Bible Become More Through