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E. W. Howe Quotes

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937

Topics

Work Doing Clothes Sunday Living Up

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

Great Death Risks Me Person Decide

My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Business Meat Machines Necessary Our

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

Joe Manganiello

Good Home Men Training Roots Look

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

Ego Single Interaction Professors

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

John Lanchester

Book Three Personal Excitement Turn

The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.

Great Time Tea Think Interesting

'The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live.

Live Time Singing Sound Everything

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Best Very Really Honestly

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Roger Tory Peterson

Environmental Birds Environment Know

Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.

Myself Growing Up Look Growing Study

I like the Gap ad, the khaki one. I liked that.

Gap Like Liked Ad

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

Love Feel You Fall Create Lucky

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