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Howard Jacobson Quotes

Passionate dissent from the will of the multitude should be respected, not derided.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1942

Topics

Will Passionate Dissent Should

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Jessica Williams

World Place London Harry Potter Tour

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Family Time People Me Calm Think

I'm not a dirty fighter. Everybody knows that.

Dirty Fighter Knows Everybody

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Robert Rauschenberg

History Time Art Job Artist Witness

My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

Michael Carbonaro

Beautiful Great Together People Free

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Hope Soul People Me Feel I Can

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

Life My Life Things Happen Happen

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

Live Soul People Me Roots Feet

There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.

Responsible Taxes Paid Get Were Nor

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Character Me See Pathetic Some Sort

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Women Girl Growing Up Small Growing

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

Work Home Interesting Go Something

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