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Tobias Wolff Quotes

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Story American Short Perfect Hand

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

You Back Nothing Watch Sit About

When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people.

People Never Get Set Really

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Work Tragedy More Emotional Tension

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

Matthew McConaughey

Children Pain People Advice You Say

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Time Amazing Song Information Amount

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

Family Person Kingdom Head Root

When you're happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.

Home Happy You Things Happen Happen

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

I Am I Can Now Nothing About Am

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

Work School Computers Programming

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

People Voice Black Trying Person

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

Eye You Sometimes Same Audience Got

My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I needed.

Job Me Nothing Glamorous Footballer

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