Richard Elman Quotes

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

Richard Elman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1934 - December 31, 1997

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SchoolMeArmyDoingTryingStudy

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success.

Jillian Mayer

SuccessTalentAnythingAffectYour

'Blackbird' is the only one I've ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished business because at the time we did it at Manhattan Theatre Club, there was real momentum to move it to Broadway.

Joe Mantello

BusinessTimeMeTheatreMomentum

Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.

Joanna Coles

LoveGreatFoodJoySurviveYou

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Matthew Quick

TravelPeopleSomeoneYouPlaceSay

I love men's coats, especially because they're so large and they give plenty of room; the man's coat remains one of my favorite classics.

Jeanne Damas

LoveMenManRoomCoatGive

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

Stanley A. McChrystal

DoingPerfectWayMilitarySameOut

I'm just trying to be the next Trisha Yearwood.

Trisha Yearwood

TryingNextJust

The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

Tom Petty

BookDoingYouRulesNeverRadio

My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.

Rob Liefeld

YearYouPersonIndependentChanges

I really liked the 'Pitch Black' DVD, and I liked the commentary.

Ron Howard

BlackLikedReallyPitchCommentary

How long does it take to make 'They Think It's All Over?' It's just laughing at each other and thinking, 'Aren't we clever?'

Ronnie Corbett

ThinkThinkingLongCleverOverHow

I think a part of me romantically thinks it would be amazing to learn to dance or ice skate, but in reality, I don't think it would be beneficial to my career.

Russell Tovey

DanceAmazingMeThinkRealityIce

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