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Howard Jacobson Quotes

I once belonged to a health club, where it cost me £2,000 a year to amble on a treadmill for half an hour a week and sit and read Grazia in the cooling-off area.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Health Me Week Year Club Cost

I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.

Angela Lindvall

Good Goals Myself Meaning Year Up

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

Jeffrey Kluger

Differences Matching Studying Twins

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Juice Newton

Live Always Playing Enjoyed Onstage

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

Dick Cavett

Swimming You Pool Class Swim Things

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.

Donella Meadows

Mistake People Speak Think Meetings

If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

Debbie Reynolds

Love Alone Children Always Well Our

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Cliff Stearns

Technology Time Balance Right Same

I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant.

Ariel Levy

Woman Desert Go Kind Being Idea

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

Anne McCaffrey

My Own Own Screen Buyers Version

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

Ashton Holmes

Respect War Me World Grandfather

I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip.

Ava DuVernay

Paper Make Clip Films

When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

William Jackson

Friend Duck Copy Old Director Years