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Thomas Berger Quotes

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 20, 1924 - July 13, 2014

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Why Write Because Writers

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

Career Run Recording Environments

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Life Strength Diversity Everyone Our

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Business People Dinner Talk Only

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Child Country India Encourage Labour

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

Stephane Rolland

Simplicity Clarity More Less Is More

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

Character Time You Kind Beyond Out

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

Leadership Experience Unity Easy

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.

Good Men Evil Win Battle Wrong

I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.

Purpose Believe Think Go Month Just

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

Time Sky Happy Me Be Happy Rose

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

Character Time You I Can Possible

I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen.

Experience Men Think Thinking Talk

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