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James Joyce Quotes

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941

Topics

Words Mind Cold Through Her Sinking

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

People Me Mechanic Dumb Hollywood

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Jennifer Esposito

Me Civilization Want Give Me Give

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Education School College High School

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Life Saying Just Message Bowl He

Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'

Good Reading Think Better You Get

I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

Travis Kalanick

Good Weakness Place Got Negotiating

I remember a very nurturing, safe environment: everybody knew who I was, who my parents were, who my grandparents were, what part of Russia we were from originally. That was a really comforting feeling. Non-Mennonites, when they see that aspect of it, think it's a beautiful thing, and it is, but there's so much going on besides.

Beautiful Parents Think Remember See

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

Joseph Stiglitz

Politics Economics Better Seeing

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

Time Space World Book Write I Write

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

Life Me My Life Mentor Career Born

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Life Work Child People Someone

My hair is too fine to bleach. I get so much breakage, it's not worth it to dye it.

Christa B. Allen

Hair Worth Worth It Not Worth It Get

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