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Irving Babbitt Quotes

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933

Topics

America Confusion Standards Only

I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.

Character Day Research Action Fence

From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.

Trust Perspective Small Blind Better

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

John Drinkwater

Communication Words Poetry Way Other

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Inspirational Moment Frozen Fleeting

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Melissa Etheridge

Feel You Unique Way Tell Certain

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Song Feel Doing Will Line Emotional

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

Life Winter Son People Believe Dead

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

Government People World Face Inspire

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Freedom Wish Choose Pause Human Our

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

Life Great Me Fat My Life Body

It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that.

Good Me Know Anything Books About

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

World Know Through Center Trade Did

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