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Walter Kirn Quotes

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1962

Topics

Future Past Present Literature Down

I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.

Someone Look Admiration Like Chris

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

Jesse Eisenberg

Good Character Job Mind Reading You

I'm not going to be a coach or a director - they are not roles that I would like.

Director Coach Going Would Like

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

Alyson Hannigan

School Fame Things Those Academy

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

Stephen Henderson

Lonely Feeling Something Get Member

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.

Brother Sister Lawyer Artist Who

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

Questions Easy Desk President Never

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

Monica Bellucci

Beautiful Time Red Believe You Take

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Louis Farrakhan

Leader Teacher Spiritual I Am Me Am

I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Grow I Can Valuable Many Satisfying

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

Ten Years Wood Touch Years Started

Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

Apollonius of Tyana

Best Man Democracy Eye Worth Things

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