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David Bergen Quotes

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 14, 1957

Topics

Best Book Year You Write Jury

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

People Think Comedy You Appearance

I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous.

Love People Laugh Reach You Find

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Effort Minds Property Us Chain

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Believe You Go Crime Way Profound

It's difficult for an Asian to play in the Premier League.

Play Difficult Asian League Premier

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

Women Value Long Been Far Too

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

Mary Ellen Mark

Family Good Children Respect Hate

Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.

Family Success Go Will Others Big

I don't know what's in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to create an environment where I can bring in my favorite people and collaborate with them, and do something that is so much weirder and so different from what you'd see in commercial film.

Work People Me Environment You Know

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.

People Me Career Want First Because

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

Jason Alexander

Love Great College Loved Go Why

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

Car People Book Doing Phone Phones

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