Ray Guy Quotes

I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

Ray Guy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 22, 1949

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WaterPeopleMeDirtyLooksStreet

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PainNew YorkTomorrowPeopleMe

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

Tom Glazer

TimeNeverUpGotPerformingFull

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

Mo Collins

MinnesotaMovedMinneapolis

I have repeatedly said that success requires concerted efforts and support of the fans.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

SuccessSupportSaidFansRepeatedly

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Jonathan Zittrain

WorkMusicDigitalBuyContractOwn

When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

Christian Serratos

MyselfFocusMeGreenEatingProud

I always feel my work is a chemical reaction between me and the world, wherever I happen to be.

Cornelia Parker

WorkMeWorldFeelReactionAlways

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Brian Eno

ListeningFeelSomeoneYouSurrender

I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and other things.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

TelevisionThingsFilmTwenties

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Augusten Burroughs

Be TrueWantTrueMemoirWriter

You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

YouLoseDownWillBankTake

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Peter York

LifeGreatI AmJournalismNewOut

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