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Edward St Aubyn Quotes

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

Edward St Aubyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: January 14, 1960

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Hero Reading Think Slow Impact Go

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Mountains School Me Basketball Farm

The 'Newsies' fans are a whole different breed.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Fans Whole Different Breed

The fact is, there's good people everywhere. That's what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes is one person to mess it up.

Maz Jobrani

Good People Good People Person Try

My interest only is trying to help the lives of the people of this state, try to educate people and create jobs. It's not even for me. I've never gained anything. I don't even take a salary. I've never gained anything from being here except for the joy and the privilege of serving the people of this state.

Robert J. Bentley

Joy People Me Help Trying Create

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Time Research Writing

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

Tommy Shaw

Song Wish Down Bathroom I Wish Left

To walk out on a marriage and leave a child was painful.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

Marriage Walk Child Out Leave

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Jaron Lanier

Mother Death People Difficulty After

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

Jose Rizal

Mother Culture Woman Me Better She

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Che Guevara

Vision Path Struggle Say Fighter

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Brett Ratner

Work You Director Kinda

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

Arto Lindsay

Music World Guitar Doing Play Way