Harvey Pekar Quotes

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

Topics

WorkGoodMyselfPeopleStartLong

I would love for there to be a 'Voodoo Dreams' movie, especially after seeing the glorious 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical atmosphere. I cried.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

LoveDreamsSeeingWildMagical

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Meghan O'Rourke

MotherDeathPeopleMoreOpenAfter

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Maya Angelou

WorkSuccessGoodMorningFreedom

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

Jeff Lemire

SuccessBestSometimesRightConnect

I don't like high heels.

Sonita Alizadeh

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I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

Steve Vai

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I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

Missy Elliott

PeopleLongArtistKnowNeverWhere

Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.

Brunello Cucinelli

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It's amazing to be able to embrace young talent.

Ashley Nell Tipton

TalentAmazingYoungEmbraceAble

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

Rick Baker

PeopleProblemYouWhyHowTaught

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

Lynne Truss

LifePeopleMeRegretMy LifeYou

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Leonard Mlodinow

CommunicationEyesTimeLookingWay

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