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Graham Swift Quotes

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: May 4, 1949

Topics

Time Now Will Write Years Begin

As a quarterback, you always believe in yourself. You always know you can do things.

Jimmy Garoppolo

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

Jim Ratcliffe

City You Be Nice Nice Development

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

Andra Day

Focus School High School Hard High

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

John P. Kotter

Leadership Change Management Creating

When we play live, it's always been a do or die effort. And everything we've ever done has always had that approach.

Angus Young

Live Effort Die Play Done Always

I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.

Jeffrey Tambor

Thought Gonna Lear

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

Rob Bell

Community Relationships Celebrity

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply.

Ronald Frame

Knowledge Great Reading Expectations

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

Mike Royko

God Country Nuts West Fruits

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

Michael Redhill

Habit Looking Walking Down Strange

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

Judith Jamison

Freedom Dance You Way Move Idea

Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.

Jay Parini

History Person Inspired Followers