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Bob Shacochis Quotes

Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can handle. But I also know that if you handle that job properly, everything else just clicks into place.

Bob Shacochis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Job Trying You I Can Place Know

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

Jim Ryun

Moment Past Support Budget Security

Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.

Joaquim Barbosa

Racism Media Hidden Brazil Well

The only thing I never have unless I'm pregnant is heartburn.

Jessica Capshaw

Never Only The Only Thing Thing

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Robert Gottlieb

Art Start Nothing Knowing Out Like

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

Andy Griffith

Day Every Day Play Escape Prove Out

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Andy Murray

Nervous Never Big Front Felt Crowds

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

Ang Lee

Writing Now Kind Director Directing

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

John Trudell

Good Home Past People You Know

In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.

Roxane Gay

Beach You Haiti Because Books Reads

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

Joss Stone

Music Me Out Deal Make Album

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine di Giovanni

Together Research Book Puzzle You

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.

Jonathan Kozol

Childhood Satisfaction Goodness Right