Jonathan Galassi Quotes

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

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• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

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• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

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• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

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• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

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• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

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• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  

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• God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

  

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• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

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• I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

  

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• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

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• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

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• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

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• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

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• 'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.

  

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• I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

  

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• Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

  

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• Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.

  

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• I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Work
  • Book
  • Together