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Howard Jacobson Quotes

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Community Voice Will Way Single

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Health Feel Years Cost Paid Heavy

Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

Business Best Battle You Create Go

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Michael Bloomberg

World Fighting America Liberty New

I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Amanda Lindhout

Me Chance Intentional Way Names See

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

Power Culture Money Identity Parents

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Time College Learn You Too Much How

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Dance Step People Genius You Body

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Life Waiting Start My Life You Way

'Fear the Walking Dead,' since its inception, has been a very inclusive show.

Fear Walking Inclusive Dead Been

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

People America Ownership Lose Rise

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

Adversity Myself Me Think Year Know

I don't think I'm on the studio president's list: 'The movie's going to star Cannavale.' That's not happening.

Bobby Cannavale

Think President Star Going Happening

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