Alistair MacLeod Quotes

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

Alistair MacLeod

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 20, 1936

Topics

I AmWritingStoryThinkRatherAm

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Joe Wilson

WarDisasterOutClearlyFalseIraq

The most romantic thing I've done is too personal to say.

Matt Czuchry

RomanticDoneSayPersonalMostToo

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

Michael Eric Dyson

LifeSimpleDeathWordsManKing

I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Sterling K. Brown in the same way that I think of Andre Braugher and James Earl Jones.

Sterling K. Brown

WorkThinkBodyWantWaySame

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Troye Sivan

StyleWarSongViewYouWant

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

Tom Brokaw

AnniversarySpringPrepareNorthwest

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

Matt Berninger

WorkSayingTryingAnythingRings

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

Jon Lovitz

PeopleThinkLoanSome PeopleGot

Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.

Derek Walcott

WaterHabitYourselfStandDoingGo

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

Deepak Chopra

KarmaThroughConsciousnessJust

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

Chris Evans

FutureFeetDoingBackMoviesHard

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

Christina Aguilera

SonHappyMeHealthyMatters

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