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Edward M. Lerner Quotes

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Edward M. Lerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1949

Topics

History Detail Story Enough Hawaii

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

Joe Mande

Time Money School Team Saying Black

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

Jens Voigt

Age Think You Lose Endurance Your

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

Andrea Bocelli

Love God Ride Thank God Boat Better

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Work Joy Start Play Anything Answer

McGregor is a great fighter, and he is doing his job very well. He is very intelligent; he knows exactly what he is doing.

Anderson Silva

Great Job Doing Fighter Intelligent

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

Robert Shapiro

Education School War People You Go

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

Love Loneliness Love Is Enough Fall

There is a need for a vision that's compelling and uplifting, especially in a time when people are worried. At the same time, in this era, hard work and lofty rhetoric are not going to compel you to the presidency.

Jeff Fortenberry

Work Hard Work Vision Time People

There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

Steve Coogan

Smart Comedy Doing Need Analysis

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

Steve Earle

Home Teacher School Me High School

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Sholem Asch

Sword Spirit Conquered Ever While

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

Mickey Gilley

Restaurant Barbecue Serve Southwest