Howard Jacobson Quotes

In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.

Howard Jacobson

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Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

John Knoll

ThinkPossibleTryRealWellBeen

I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.

Matt Dillon

FunActionComedyDoingYouWant

When I'm onstage, I'm not thinking about ideas. I'm not in my head at all. It's a more physical experience.

Matisyahu

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My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

Rosecrans Baldwin

BeachMistakesSunMeToughYou

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Roy Acuff

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The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.

Mitch Glazer

FamilyHappinessBeachMeCoolYou

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Drew Barrymore

TimePeopleQuestionsYouPerfect

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Dorothy L. Sayers

YouNothingProveOnlyYourOutlook

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

Cormac McCarthy

HomeTeacherSchoolNameHobby

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful.

Claire Denis

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As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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There's that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you're aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.

Pete Docter

ChildhoodYouBubbleAnythingAware

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