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Oscar Hijuelos Quotes

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1951 - October 12, 2013

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Work Writing You Way Write Call

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

Responsibility Growing Up Think Up

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

Child Problems Attention Back Will

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

Me Entrepreneur Everything E-Commerce

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Fun Artist Band Met Played Reed

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

Good Experience You Bad Wrong Need

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Crazy Think Country Scared Going

You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

Jordan Peterson

Lie People Free Someone Speech You

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Power Time Party Socialist Came

I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.

Learning Mind Learn You Young Tell

Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.

Debbie Reynolds

Me Tough Little Used Set He

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

Clementa C. Pinckney

Culture People America Unique Place

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

Daughter Death Looking Bad Play Him

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