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Larry McMurtry Quotes

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 3, 1936

Topics

Ignorance Direction Look Historical

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Genius Translation Than Attempt His

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

Jennifer Aniston

Job Blame Someone Not Knowing You

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Children Job Death Story Bear More

My challenge is to win titles and trophies with Real Madrid.

Challenge Win Real Titles Trophies

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.

Music College Me Doing Hobby Acting

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.

Time Long You Dark Know Achieving

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

Father Home Me Sister Think Never

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

School Law High School Year Early

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Children Myself Child You Copy Know

Let me speak for myself: I think I wanted to see people who looked like me on TV. I wanted to see people who had similar experiences as I had, growing up. There was nobody on television when I was a teenager who I could relate to.

Myself People Me Growing Up Think

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Me Road Someone Look House Garden

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up - I knew I was going to hell before anyone ever told me that I was. People found comfort in this all-knowing source, but I felt frightened and found out. I developed some weird and very dramatic complexes.

God People Me Growing Up Hell Weird

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