Howard Jacobson Quotes

If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places to express itself, early socialism being one of them.

Howard Jacobson

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Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

John Hurt

LiteratureYouInformationImageGet

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Max Brooks

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Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.

Matthew McConaughey

FeelExerciseRightWithoutHead

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.

Jeff Miller

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Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

StyleMeFriendsSometimesSayPay

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.

Stella Young

DeathEvenTreatmentMedically

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Sun Tzu

BattleTempleWhoGeneralManyWins

I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

Skylar Grey

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I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

Rose McGowan

GreatPeopleLuckThinkDiePhone

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

Loudon Wainwright III

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Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.

Cory Booker

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