John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

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• My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Hand
  • Cat

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Friends

• I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Year

• I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Decision
  • Thought
  • I Can

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Opportunity
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• I'm very pessimistic.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Very
  • Pessimistic

• It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feeling
  • Special
  • Ride

• I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Hungry
  • Victories
  • Defeats

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Man
  • First

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Work
  • College
  • Language

• There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • World
  • Development
  • Cyber

• Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women

• Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Play
  • Anything
  • Complete

• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Family
  • Party

• And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Victory
  • Citizenship

• I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Night
  • Play
  • Vegas

• I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush

• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Iraq
  • Should Have

• There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan