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Frank Norris Quotes

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902

Topics

Life Comment Function He Sees

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Jessica Capshaw

Time Selfish Think Someone Place

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Child Solitude Creation Only Himself

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.

Animal Basics NFL Different Getting

What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Me Night Wake Up Dawn Too Much Done

Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality.

Best Quality Television Engineers

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

John Mellencamp

Change Society Think Back Go See

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.

John Hickenlooper

Experience People Accountability Who

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Man Stupid Deep Literature Head

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I Am Meditation Now My Own Height

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.

Blessed Agree Needs Some Many Jobs

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

Tax Three Income Tax Got Claim Kids

The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

You System Japan Much Pension Ties

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