Thomas McGuane Quotes

One of the reasons I'm reluctant to start a novel is it's such an obsessive activity. You get in there, you don't know anything else while you're in there. And that's quite a sacrifice to make, especially for us old guys where time is kind of short. You don't want to disappear for a year; you want to be outdoors.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 11, 1939

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You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

Jimmy Iovine

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Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

Joe Sakic

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There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Joe Biden

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I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.

Anderson Cooper

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What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

Michael Hayden

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I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Stephen Colletti

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I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Robin Wright

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No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.

Martti Ahtisaari

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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael LeBoeuf

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Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

Molly Parker

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I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs... even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.

Svetlana Alexievich

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