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Padgett Powell Quotes

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1952

Topics

Fun Find Animals Pets Like Stuff

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Relationship Myself Drawing Mouth

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

Winter Sports Time Silly Rules Run

The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.

Win Lost Will Seems Administration

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Good People Long You Places Means

The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.

Makeup Foundation Journalism News

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

History War Effort America Year Now

One day, I received a mail from a female fan saying she had named a star after me. She even mailed me the certificate for it!

Sidharth Malhotra

Day Me Saying One Day She Mail

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

Respect Money People Think You Find

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.

Style Blind Guitar End Someone You

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

Me Kid Names Away His Enamored

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

Business Experience Think Bad Open

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Good People Others More Some People

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