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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

E. L. Doctorow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father Music Day Musicians Street

On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's on the same thing going, 'Aha, I know where you're going here.'

Jimmy Fallon

Ride Together Night Doing You Late

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

Jim DeMint

Win Wall Vote Street First Catering

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

Jesse Jackson

Ideas Direction Party Bold New Know

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age Science Credit Never Always Due

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

John Fowles

Great Time Misery Century Our Lack

I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways.

Melissa McCarthy

Work Want Clothing Different Piece

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Angela Merkel

Live Beginning Reality Country Said

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.

Andy Goldsworthy

Work Myself Me Photography Sometimes

I just enjoy watching tennis. And there's things that you can learn from the men's and the women's game.

Andy Murray

Women Men Game Learn Enjoy You

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

Jeff Daniels

Vision Service People Night Hands

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking

Simple Universe Understanding Goal

I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. The Dutch are really nice people. The schools were great.

Stefflon Don

Change Great Childhood People Nice