Rick Bragg Quotes

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

Rick Bragg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 26, 1959

Topics

WritingStoryMagicPhoneAirport

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

John Fahey

WritingBookCountryNobodyKnow

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

Robert Smithson

New YorkCityNewTopSeeJersey

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

Matthew Sweet

MeWeekYouPlaySaidWant

I'm confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country's biggest problems.

Jeff Duncan

GovernmentPeopleWinProblemsOver

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

John Strachan

ExcellenceLateSuperiorMustBeen

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Toni Morrison

ChildrenPeopleEarthScorned

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

Martin Scorsese

NatureProblemsProcessSpecialOwn

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

Judith Viorst

MeWindowWritingPerfectUnderstand

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Demi Moore

LifeHappyYouAnythingComeThan

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

Christian Bale

BestGenerationTalkingYouGoSay

When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture.

Colleen Atwood

WorkTimeBestPeopleBetterLook

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Brooke Shields

WelcomeWorldFeelModelingI Feel

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