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Gunter Grass Quotes

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: german
Birth: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015

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Grateful I Am Lesson Early I Can

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

Robert Grosseteste

Day You Be Careful Two Over Sit

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

Michael Cunningham

Great Literature Student First Last

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Advice Bad Nothing More Hateful

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

Me Know Sides Always Different Lot

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

Simple Start Direction Think Three

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

Robert E. Howard

Live Business Men People Living Oil

Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

Robin S. Sharma

Love Respect People Generosity Up

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Mary-Louise Parker

College Me Direction Comedy Too Much

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

Sad People Homework Back Down Will

I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

Time Job People Problem Mad Why

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

Doctor Done Lovely Anything Because

If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn't work this time, you can try again on the next production.

Work Change Time Theatre World You

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