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Iris Johansen Quotes

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1938

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Better Feel Done Always Critical

What's interesting about the fans is, fans are very fickle. They all have their own opinion.

Opinion Interesting Own Fans Fickle

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Faith Hope Great Economics Deep

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

Two Got Books Hour Takes

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.

Jonathan Turley

You Know Said Way President Always

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Good Art Simple Feel Powerful

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

Life Mind Trying Understand Pure

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

Sleep Sunglasses Festivals Go Want

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.

Talent Nothing Reason Extraordinary

When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

Good Job People Color Black You

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

Henry Louis Gates

Decision Together People Looking Back

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

Georgia May Jagger

Think Kind Being Dork Still Cooler

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Change Men Past Will Always Who

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