Mark Helprin Quotes

I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.

Mark Helprin

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WinterGreatWalkWallsClimbDown

I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.

Andy Cohen

JealousBetterLadyLookI CanRisk

I'm very concerned that we don't make movies that are original anymore.

Robert Zemeckis

MoviesOriginalMakeConcernedVery

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

Russell Baker

GoodAmericanBluesDaysRuinsMany

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Michel Foucault

AgeKnowledgePowerFreeWillCost

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

Michael Morpurgo

IsolationThinkWriteDifficultMost

Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.

Jared Polis

CommunityWelcomeFeelKnowRights

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Jonathan Lethem

WorkBookNeverImageHeadShape

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

Dirk Benedict

DogLionMountainWorldCareHere

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

Debbie Millman

DesignWayUsedChangedCandidate

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

Cher

GreatAlwaysInterestedAnyone

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Brooke Burke

OceanShrimpCockroachesHorrified

Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.

Anne Reid

TogetherFeelKnowNowGotWell

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