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William Dean Howells Quotes

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

William Dean Howells

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920

Topics

Good Great Luck Good Luck Fall Us

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

Live Music Me Think You Perfect

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

Good Men Game Back Boxing Young

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

Style Think Name Better You Mean

Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.

Business Day Problem Customer True

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Work American Seek Still Publishing

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

Business Control Destiny Thought Own

I've never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.

World Short Easy Never Up Against

I was very aware of the fact we were so out of fashion when I shot 'Chicago.' And I was trepidatious as to whether it would be seen or embraced by anybody, but I've never stopped believing in the genre. There's nothing like it. It's American-born.

Fashion Chicago Believing Nothing

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Sports Football College Weather Cold

As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past. He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis Presley, move like Michael Jackson, and swoon like Frank Sinatra.

Past Stand Move Mic Elvis Presley

You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

You Artist Person Lucky Changes Get

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

Love History War People World Loved

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