Kevin Patterson Quotes

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.

Kevin Patterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 27, 1964

Topics

PowerEyesMeFatNowWrite

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.

Andrew Zimmern

MusicGodArtCulturePeopleTry

Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

Melvyn Bragg

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Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

Robert Morgan

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From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected.

Maurice Flanagan

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I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Steve Vai

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You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Tom Hanks

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The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Roger Altman

CongressSawTreasuryMajorVividly

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

Mike Myers

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I just love where I am right now in my career.

Martina McBride

LoveI AmCareerNowRightWhere

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Little Richard

MotherMeAttentionPay Attention

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert

WisdomYouNeverCut

Europe can't rely on a Trump-led U.S. for its defence. But, at the same time, it should recognise that the cold war is over - however unwilling to acknowledge it America's industrial-military complex may be.

Joseph Stiglitz

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