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Abraham Verghese Quotes

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

Abraham Verghese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: ethiopian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Good Day Job Good Day Writing You

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Marriage Yourself Parents Interesting

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

Laughter People Kind True System

Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.

People World Questions Sometimes Fox

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

John Larroquette

Good Character Finding Acting

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Work Me Walks Unconscious Some

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Mother School Me Giving Different

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

Myself Tradition Cinema Things Happen

I sleep good because I have a great family and stuff like that, a great life, but career-wise, I have some things I need to accomplish.

Life Family Good Great Sleep Need

So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

Me Basketball Places Never Always

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Beauty Value People World Earth

My first book deal was actually for a textbook - 'Judo and You' - that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for Kendall-Hunt came looking for someone to write the book, and even though it wasn't a course I was teaching there, I agreed to write it.

Jonathan Maberry

Looking Book Someone You Scout Deal

You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.

People You Minds Pay Where Goes

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