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James A. Michener Quotes

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997

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Great Experience Imagination People

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

Me Band Out Point Up Playing

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Man White Know Everything Knows He

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'

Today You House White Nobody Say

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

Hope Teacher Best Mind Me Advice

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Life Reflection Vacation Busy Want

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

Women Identity Strong Never Realize

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Government Fight Environmental Own

Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.

Good Stupid Eating Dumb Actor Up

It's fine to seek professional help, but I urge everyone - no matter how big their portfolio - to truly understand every suggestion they're given before acting.

Help Acting Professional Understand

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sylvester Stallone

I Am Society Just Because Mean Old

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Life Medical Potential Abortion

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.

Light Water Looks Complicated Kind

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