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Howard Jacobson Quotes

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Criticism Literature Everything

The Process is never going to end.

Process End Never Going

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

Jennifer Lawrence

Life Great Me Trying Long Teeth

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Fun Game Way Hard Things Mankind

Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

John L. Phillips

Day Feel Exercise You Measure Kind

I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.

Robert Michael Morris

Good Background Catholic I Came Came

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

Men Victory Better Army Who Goes

I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.

Good Home Music Mirror Practice Shy

The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.

Good Style Unique Boxing Kind Way

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Leadership Character Sports Teamwork

I had been acting since I was a kid. I had done 35 plays in New York before 'Serious Man,' but you never know what putting one foot in front of the other is going to do.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Man New York You Acting New Know

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Technology Meaning Weapon Nuclear

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Deborah Eisenberg

Experience Short Like Stories Very

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