Jerome Charyn Quotes
'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
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We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
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Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.
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I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
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'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
