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Howard Jacobson Quotes

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

God People Sometimes Way Something

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Money Poetry Neither

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Happy America You Conspiracy Make

I was dancing for my grandpa from the time I was 4 or 5 years old in Puerto Rico.

Time Puerto Rico Old Dancing Years

I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

Country Nice Sound Like Sort Really

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

Michael Ondaatje

Past Place Us Still Safely Settled

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Short Prove Something Film Show

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Fear Death Mind Create Inevitable

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

Motto Fight Me End Fighting Die

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

Confused Always Boundaries Writer

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Dominika Cibulkova

Yourself Be Yourself You Become Very

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Donald Rumsfeld

Learning Single Where Agree Been

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Aretha Franklin

Confident Doing You Artist Always

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