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Howard Jacobson Quotes

To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Ear Comic Redundant Literary Term

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

Community People Weird Drama Way

The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

Live Culture People World Reality

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Mother God Children Great Time Mom

The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs between 15 and 25 cents. For most people who cannot afford other kinds of entertainment, it is their entertainment.

History Value People Television

When I came to WWE back in the day, I'd been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Day Momentum Back Years Been

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

I Am Roots Proud Rich Golf Will

When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.

Robert Zemeckis

Fight People New Know Now See

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.

Michael O'Keefe

Family I Am Wise Parents People Me

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Good Character Story Driving Tell

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

Fight You Sometimes Tell Started

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

Great Skiing Win World You Down

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Life Victory Defeat Part Equanimity

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