Walter Kirn Quotes

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

Walter Kirn

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GoodGreatThreeAlwaysSuccessful

When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

Jim Webb

FamilyFatherMotherBackKnowShe

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.

Tracy Morgan

LifeLoveMeBlackPersonSay

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

ArtCreativitySmallArtistBeast

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

Rob Gronkowski

LifeLife ChangesChangesLittleBit

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Russell Simmons

PeopleVoiceHip-HopPoorVoiceless

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it.

Michelle Alexander

AmericaSayWhyMovementRacial

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

Joseph Brodsky

ThreeTwiceBeenImprisonedHad

The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you.

Dom DeLuise

LifeBeautifulWifeMeBelieveYou

The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles is the best.

Brigitte Nielsen

BestHotelLos AngelesBeverly Hills

I think it is a wonderful process of transformation from an actress to a producer.

Anushka Sharma

TransformationThinkProcessProducer

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Thomas Paine

ScienceManUniversePrinciplesOnly

The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.

Tim Griffin

PurposeStandPresidentNationWhere

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