Francine Prose Quotes

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

Francine Prose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1947

Topics

WorkArtStartThinkingProblemYou

Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it's our duty not only to mentor entrepreneurs and executive teams, but also to learn from them and the others involved. We can then pass on lessons to aid the startup ecosystem and help businesses succeed and grow their impact.

Joe Lonsdale

PurposeSucceedThinkImpactHelp

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

Anderson Cooper

SpeakThinkLanguageLearnLossYou

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

John Muir

GodGreatBestBeginningManGarden

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

Sophie Okonedo

TimeDaySleepWake UpThinkingYou

The biggest bit of advice that I've ever received, and something that I've seen and experienced, is that, 'You can fail, and that's OK - just keep going.'

Tosca Musk

Keep GoingAdviceYouFailGoingOK

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Tom Cruise

TalkMeansSettlingDisputes

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Robert B. Laughlin

MyselfSmallGlassChemistryTorch

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

Lucy Hale

GoodSchoolStudentStraightMade

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

Lorraine Toussaint

WorkBestFindOutcomeAudition

If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor.

Louie Gohmert

SchoolPeopleLawChicagoNothing

I really get excited when we win. I get really upset when we don't, and I hope that still has a place in the NFL.

Jon Gruden

HopeWinPlaceUpsetExcitedGet

No actor can refuse a combination of a good story, a Balaji production, and the show being aired on Star Plus.

Divyanka Tripathi

GoodStoryActorProductionStar

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