Tobias Wolff Quotes

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

Tobias Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 19, 1945

Topics

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I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

Jessica Pare

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I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

Jemima Kirke

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Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Anna Friel

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This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.

Stephan Pastis

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There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Tommy Chong

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Donald Trump is the physical embodiment of what David Duke wanted to achieve and failed.

Ron Stallworth

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I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

Romeo Santos

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Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

Mona Eltahawy

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Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Jon Meacham

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I once made a giant six-foot can of Crisco that a person had to dance in and that had an Elvis wig on top.

Chris March

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My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

Chris Tucker

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

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