Nicholson Baker Quotes

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Know

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Wife
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• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
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• Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
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• A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
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  • Me

• Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Up
  • Movies

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • People
  • Writing
  • Small

• I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• 'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.

  

  Anushka Sharma
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• The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Strong
  • Community
  • Lost

• I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

  

  Nicholson Baker
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