Harold Brodkey Quotes

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Harold Brodkey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 25, 1930 - January 26, 1996

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What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.

Jo Brand

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Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Jill Scott

CommunityOwnEverybodyPart

My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.

Stephen Merchant

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I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

Stone Gossard

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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

Simon Wiesenthal

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It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.

Douglas Brinkley

GreatYouCountryImportantWild

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

Annabelle Wallis

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It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

William Hague

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A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

Peter Heller

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

Sean Astin

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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

Ricky Williams

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