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Howard Jacobson Quotes

You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Welcome Enjoy You Country Living

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

Story Loved Giving Landscape Sheep

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Beauty Someone Too Much Try Fresh

I've learned something about kids - they don't do what you say; they do what you do.

You Say Something Kids Learned

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Work Success Dreams Great Career

My 3-year-old daughter is somewhat psychic. I hate the abuse of that word, so let's just say... intuitive. She was born 'in the caul,' meaning my water never broke, and superstition says that makes a child psychic.

Daughter Water Hate Child Meaning

The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil.

Problem Independent Oil More Capable

Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.

Ryan Bethencourt

Work Community Simple Beginning Rise

I think people are very interested when a creator is really trying to do something new and do it with integrity and honesty, when it gives them something they can connect with and has an emotional core.

Integrity Honesty People Think New

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'

Me Be Different You Gay Down Said

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Success Confidence Honesty Ability

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Best Tradition Doing Now Pay Singer

I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy.

Louis Leterrier

Love Sometimes Lazy Get Like Guys

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