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Graham Joyce Quotes

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 22, 1954

Topics

Language Political Dirty Personal

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

Death Think Die Off I Think Cause

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

Good Nothing Without Happens Penalty

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

Best End Year Mad Talk Through

Much of my life has been a devotion to a simple expression: you can Lead Without a Title.

Robin S. Sharma

Life Simple My Life You Devotion

If you don't have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.

Best Ambition Someone You Place

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

Rufus Wainwright

Focus Aging Think Wonderful Because

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Key Finding Easy Play Said Way

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

Defeat Ability State Muslims Islamic

I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of 'Look Back in Anger' with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, 'I want to do that.'

Moment Anger Me Think Look Back

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

People You Project Years See Float

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

Brigitte Bardot

Child Care Take Care Enough Know

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Today America You Seriously Offended

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