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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015

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Music Words Brain Rhythm Line Along

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

Creative Story Thought Career Way

We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life World Through Pass Once

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

Alphonse Allais

Coffee Sleep Beverage Drank Puts

It was the cholesterol. I had two fried eggs a day for breakfast. I had no checkups for five years. I kept meaning to go. The doctor would probably say it was years of bad living. I've always had a good time. Maybe I've had too good a time.

Good Time Day Breakfast Doctor Bad

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

You Offensive Somebody Satirical

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Tomas Transtromer

Shadow Person Photograph Bigger Than

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Life Amazing Curiosity Appearance

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun!

Man Fun People You Play Know

I've played the game for 23, 24 years. Four months off, I'm not going to lose it.

Game Lose Years Going Off Four

I have such an extraordinary platform where I am able to help people. To me, that's the number one priority.

I Am People Me Help Extraordinary

My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.

Day Mind Evening Friends Find Go

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.

Susan Kelechi Watson

Life Character Time Long You Over

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