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M. H. Abrams Quotes

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
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Birth: July 23, 1912 - April 21, 2015

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Fun Student Bloom Always Students

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

End Comedy Say Yes Jokes Grunge

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

Man Wine Too Much Desire Will Dull

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Maxwell Caulfield

Business Single Where Secure Anybody

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Girl Law Want Movies Little Star

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

Walk Information Bad Choice Leaving

I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.

Love Live Experience Focus Movies

The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.

Me Team Action Important First Get

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

Experience Balance People Video Games

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Mary Ritter Beard

Women Greeks Only Those Very Muses

My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

Juan Felipe Herrera

History Parents Me Roots Facts Just

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Technology Time Identity Process

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

Mood Try Audience See Read

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