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Howard Jacobson Quotes

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book Out Noise Drown Other

Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.

Sports New York Law Famous New Who

I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. Just don't take the part if you feel like it's a stereotypical part for you. You have control over your life. We don't have the old studio system, where you have to do what they tell you.

Life Time Yourself Blame Control

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

God Power Respect People Law Divine

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

Work Character Myself Artist Shoot

'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.

Think Problem You Wrong Done Three

Even though I played in the NBA, we tried to give our kids as normal a life as possible. We gave them everything they needed, not everything they wanted, and they had to work for what they wanted. I think that mentality helped.

Life Work Think Possible Everything

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

Chellie Pingree

Health I Am Democracy Proud American

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

Character Woman Long Perfect Wonder

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Day Habit Me Journal My Own Write

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Opinion World Strange Well Jolly

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

World Artist Lit Only Thing

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Work Language Learn Speech Lucky

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