George Orwell Quotes

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

Topics

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Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

Jens Voigt

ThoughtCareerGoWayFirstFinish

There is no one thing that can turn around a rejection. But there is one answer: begin talking to your customers who have already bought from you and discover why they bought.

Jeffrey Gitomer

TalkingRejectionYouWhyTurn

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

John Stossel

TimeFightMeYouLivingGet

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

Russell Smith

FutureStoryMysterySaidNeverShe

I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it.

Rosemarie DeWitt

MyselfPeopleThinkFeelI CanKnow

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary McCarthy

HeroCuriousWillSuspenseHappen

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.

Miguel Syjuco

PerspectiveExperienceSmallLook

There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.

Loni Love

LiveGreatExperiencePeopleLook

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Loretta Lynn

BirthdayHeroPresentAprilHimSat

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Donna Tartt

WritingProcessEnjoyLongBig

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

Brooke Burke

GoodTimeBlessingChildThinkYou

The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

Austin Grossman

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