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James A. Michener Quotes

I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

James A. Michener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beginning Advice Sure Only Your Bit

I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.

Black And White Day I Am Hat Door

The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

Matthew Yglesias

Service People Problem Mail Revenue

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

Stars Fun Me Dancing Up Opened

I got into real estate very much by accident.

Real Estate Real Estate Got Accident

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

Life Integrity Doing Find Way Own

Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.

Blue Come And Go Go Will Become

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

Christopher Guest

Sports Men Baseball People Think

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

Chris Van Hollen

Time Myself Together Plan Long Way

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

Good People Sometimes Seriously She

I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.

Night I Can Go Boring Rock Why

I was brought to Hollywood by Gene Roddenberry and Michael Eisner, chosen from 600 hopefuls to star in the original 'Star Trek' motion picture. The success of the film, coupled with the allure that I had shaved my head for the role, put a spotlight on me.

Persis Khambatta

Success Me Picture Hollywood Head

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

Sean M. Carroll

Future Time Past Remember Egg You

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