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Richard Elman Quotes

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

Richard Elman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Growing Up Too Much Growing Class Up

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

John McWhorter

Good Queen World You Person Drama

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.

Robert Scoble

You Reaction More Studying Emotional

I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.

Sonya Walger

People World Think Internet American

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

Growth Live Age Science Respect

With Hulk, I don't agree with all his choices, but you know what, I don't hear people saying all the great things he does. When he was on the Wheaties box, all those kids that said their prayers and took their vitamins, I don't hear them saying that.

Roddy Piper

Great People Saying Choices You Box

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

Mary Quant

Freedom Childhood People Clothes Run

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Mignon McLaughlin

Anxious Knew About

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

Judi Dench

People Stage Miss Actually

A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the writers' room or one of the writers themselves told in the writers' room.

Jay Ellis

Story You Seeing Go Room Something

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

Corey Taylor

Dreams Talent People Enough Go Know

Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.

Colin Jost

Place Never Always Out Fancy Exotic

I don't think that 25-year-olds should be fighting 40-year-olds.

Scott Coker

Think Fighting Should