Anne Fadiman Quotes

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

Anne Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1953

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I watch 'House of Cards,' which was great. I don't watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it.

Joanne Kelly

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

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When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.

Mayer Hawthorne

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Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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Music brings unity.

Trombone Shorty

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As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

Tom Petty

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I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

Rodney Crowell

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It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

Rosalind Russell

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We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.

Mohammad bin Salman

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Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Joseph Abboud

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I realized that, when you're 18, your world is wide open. But as each year passes, one more nail goes into the coffin, killing you dreams and aspirations. And by the time you reach 25, you've been beaten down and become a realist. And my advice is you can't let these things get you down.

Paul Zane Pilzer

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For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

Scott Turow

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