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Phil Klay Quotes

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Phil Klay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

Me Writing Book Believe Blind True

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

John Grant

Myself Learn Fall Going Just Apart

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.

John McEnroe

Respect Great Think Skin Healthy

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Robert Graves

Money Poetry Either Then

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

Andy Williams

Business Want Aggressive Never Get

I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.

Jeff Buckley

Education Good Grace Rest Learn Own

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

Teacher Progress Student Always Own

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

Amiri Baraka

Typewriter Little Fellowship Call

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

Steve Jurvetson

Work Happen Pure Deals Situations

Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we're thinking, 'Really dude? Were still here!' and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you're lucky, so what we've done is amazing.

Tommy Lee

Life Trust Walk Amazing Me Saying

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Roy Acuff

Done Two Pleasure Things Whole Had

My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say.

Michelle Huneven

Mother Sometimes Say California Like

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.

Miles D. White

You Dream Achieve Achieving Want