Chaim Potok Quotes

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002

Topics

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Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

Jessie Cave

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Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

Andrea Arnold

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I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.

John Holdren

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For a lot of people, 'Dungeons & Dragons' has been a hard thing to describe. I can't tell you how many social environments I've been in where I say, 'I play 'D&D,'' and a bunch of normies will be like, 'How does the game even work? What's that like?' I didn't have anything to really describe it that didn't make me sound like a crazy person.

Matthew Mercer

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If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

Andy Roddick

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If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.

John William McCormack

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In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

Mitt Romney

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We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.

David Shields

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The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

Chiara Ferragni

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I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

Chris Colfer

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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Clive Bell

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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

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