Mark Helprin Quotes

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Mark Helprin

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For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Jim Sensenbrenner

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So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

Roger Rees

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If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, I would say, 'Lose weight.'

Miriam Margolyes

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The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'

Jason Calacanis

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Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

Chrystia Freeland

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I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Brene Brown

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

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I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.'

Susan Sullivan

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Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be in the room with him while he's being interviewed by someone else.

Richard Ben Cramer

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What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.

Martin Clunes

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