Albert Murray Quotes

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.

Albert Murray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1916 - August 18, 2013

Topics

TimeVoiceStudentMoreCasualBeen

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Jessica Bird

LifeMeWritingInternetYearDown

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Jeremy Sumpter

WaterMeLawyerNeverJuryBecause

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

Solomon Burke

NeedCompanyDependPublishRecords

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Trenton Lee Stewart

AdventureFindingWayAlwaysBig

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

Rory Bremner

BridgeThinkYouVegetablesMore

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

Mary Gaitskill

HomeWorldStrangeFirstLeftFound

If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react.

Julia Garner

YourselfListeningPartnerDoingYou

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.

Johnny Flynn

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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens

EducationChildrenReligionMeFound

All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.

Peter Ackroyd

LifeLiveBeautifulMenPeopleCity

The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.

Sheldon Jackson

HeartTrainingMindHandWell

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

Mark Kennedy

GoodChildrenBetterEnvironmentUs

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