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Henry James Quotes

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916

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Museums Palaces Conservatives

I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'

Girl Me Think Learn Haters First

Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Good Time Shy Audience Good Time

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Year Play Go Way Through Bass

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

Better Artists Understood Than Else

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

Guitar Play Kid Piano Started Bass

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

Failure Story You Look Teach Way

President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.

Failure Women Men Sacrifice American

Rehab is like a divorce.

Divorce Like Rehab

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Jose Manuel Barroso

World Decisions Wrong Democratic

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

Language Stick Would Writer He

Playing mother to grown-up kids does not allure me much. I will not feel comfortable. Also, my fans will not like me with grey hair.

Divyanka Tripathi

Mother Me Hair Feel Grey Will

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

Change Business Earth Will Way Make

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