Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

Aleksandar Hemon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: bosniak
  • Birth: September 9, 1964

Topics

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

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You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

John Cho

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I am an actor. I love acting, and I absolutely love what I do, but I don't want it to be every waking hour.

Maxine Peake

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If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Matthew Perry

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I'm glad I got to do 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are both shows that I just don't think I could have the stamina to do them eight times a week. I just have so much respect for the women who do these vocal roles eight times a week. They're so challenging.

Anna Kendrick

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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

John Stuart Mill

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In addition to transitioning to the cloud, our customers continue to invest in premium versions of our on-prem server products like Window Server, System Center and SQL Server.

Amy Hood

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When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.

Stewart Lee

Social MediaPeopleControlStory

I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.

Steve Largent

PositiveDecisionPeopleEyeYou

Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Rod Carew

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I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.

Matt Bomer

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Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

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