Abraham Verghese Quotes
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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It's those damn critics again.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
