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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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.
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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
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There's always a source for humor.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
