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William Trevor Quotes

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

William Trevor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: May 24, 1928 - November 20, 2016

Topics

Pain Pleasure Fiction Own Distress

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

Ami Ayalon

Morning Wake Up Reality Ignore You

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Stephen Rodrick

You Down Wall Want Mean Sit

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Steven Pinker

Nature Picture Human Nature Back

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Mason Cooley

New York Drawing Paris New Villages

While there's life, there's fear.

Mason Cooley

Life Fear While

I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.

Jason Fried

Simple Problems Trying Early Young

All I know about acting is that I just have to keep on doing it.

Jason Robards

Doing Acting Know Keep Just About

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

Dean Norris

Family Parents College Person Singer

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

Chris Christie

Truth People Stand Up Believe Stand

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

Bono

World Complicated Get Religious Too

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

Boyd Holbrook

Work Me Hometown You Actor Company

History is always changing.

Aung San Suu Kyi

History Always Changing