Thomas McGuane Quotes

I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

Jitin Prasada

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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Jock Sturges

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Whatever historical or ideological relevance the Iowa caucus has will more than likely not get you to the White House, but it will probably get you a sweet gig at Fox News.

Meghan McCain

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Getting everyone on the same team is a form of hustling.

Max Joseph

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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Maya Angelou

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Religion and science look at reality differently.

Robert Lanza

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I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.

Tom Hooper

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I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

Tom Daley

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I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

Michael Moore

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They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

Janis Karpinski

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Diane Arbus

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I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

Dick Dale

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