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Howard Jacobson Quotes

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing meant writing and not thinking about writing, I knew nothing of any torment.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Writing Think Thinking

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

John Oliver

Stand Doing You Want Entertain

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

Sridevi

Always Capacity Daughters Dependent

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.

Trevor Paglen

Work Music Vision Performance See

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Mary Roach

People Die You Summer Know Everyone

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Dennis Rodman

Week Vegas Lost Than Las Vegas Less

It's very complicated when you are reorganizing territories under different ministries. We have to get them all together and transfer jurisdictions. It's a bureaucratic slalom course we have to ski through, but it can be done.

Douglas Tompkins

Together You Complicated Done Get

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

Chris Squire

People Back Career Go Say Want

I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.

Anohni

Voice Think Being Even Interested

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Alistair Cooke

Music Like Wallpaper Canned

In my life, it's always been about who I'm going to collaborate with. Less important to me is what the subject is.

Winnie Holzman

Life Me My Life Important Always

I have a hard time with free time.

Shia LaBeouf

Time Free Hard Free Time Hard Time

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.

Paul Weller

Good People Connected Been Records