Jimmy Breslin Quotes
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
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I have always believed in quality work.
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
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It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
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Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
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I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.
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The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
