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George Steiner Quotes

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1929

Topics

Vision Impact Uniform Individual

I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.

Man Broken School Me Doing Summer

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

School Crazy Loved Class Like Nerd

I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.

Me Rich Paris Appreciated Study

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

God Blessing Dance Yourself Rainbow

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Life You Go Kid Taken Lapel

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

True First Difference Bigger Between

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Car Day Drive Wish Worry Sometimes

When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is a little weird.'

Robert Ben Garant

Weird Doing Boy Up Little Variety

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

Good Great End You Wrong Director

What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

Woman Husband Golf Clothes Kind Her

I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

Thomas Middleditch

Drive Wish More I Wish Industrious

I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader candidacy was extremely energising and a terrific phenomenon in American life, and I hope he continues.

Norman Finkelstein

Life Hope American Right Because He

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