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Thomas Mallon Quotes

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 2, 1951

Topics

Love Travel Train Sketch Phones

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

Today Words Song Rest Rich Genius

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

Life Energy Capture Need

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Mistakes Chance Learn Enough You

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

Stephen Tobolowsky

Day Single Where Being Irritating

I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.

Stephanie Mills

Love Think Brilliant She Rapper See

I want women to see, especially us big women, that you don't have to let them cut you and suck it out. You don't have to let them staple you up. You don't have to let them give you a pill. You don't have to let them put a band around your organs. If you just put the work in, baby, I promise you, it comes off.

Work Women Baby You Want See

Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.

Beginning Rock More Punk Punk Rock

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

Good Think Seen Get Lot Really

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

Morning Night You Early Late Jokes

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

Christine Lavin

Play Paul Julia Julia Roberts Newman

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

Christine Lavin

Words Feeling New New Yorkers Like

I don't get to do quiet time.

Antoni Porowski

Time Quiet Get Quiet Time

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