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Nicholson Baker Quotes

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

Nicholson Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 7, 1957

Topics

Thinking Enjoy Sometimes Suspense

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

Live Me Fake Feel Emotions Nervous

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

Ron Cephas Jones

Character Truth Doing You Acting

When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!

Proud Artist Gay Goddess Said She

I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.

Michiel Huisman

Old Vinyl Again Slowly Set Player

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

Joyce Carol Oates

Art Tragedy Consider Highest Form

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Want Write Quickly

I've been singing one kind of genre for a long time but have always tried to push to new auras about picking new songs or the same kind of genre but trying to sing it differently, treating it differently.

Time Singing Push Trying Long New

There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, 'What do you expect me to do?' they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.

Me You Nobody Expect Idea Somebody

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Music Great Culture People Me Book

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.

Women Men War World Civilization

Sometimes it's hard to eat healthy on the road, especially on the days when we play fairs and festivals! There is lots of fried temptation there, and it's hard for this Southern girl to turn down some good fried food.

Kimberly Schlapman

Good Girl Food Road Festivals Play

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

Television Actor Years Stage Used

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