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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.


Clifford Geertz


#actually #always #amusing #anthropology #been

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.


Charles Kuralt


#column #comes #copy #expression #habit

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.


Brendan Gleeson


#brothers #characters #coen #detail #enriched

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.


Rumer Godden


#book #cat #dead #grown #kittens

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.


Emma Goldman


#blood #body #cause #dared #her

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.


Ruth Gordon


#best #impromptu #ones #speeches #very

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.


Stephen Greenblatt


#audience #audiences #been #content #enough

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.


Larry Hagman


#barely #dallas #dross #entertainment #i

I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.


Pamela Harriman


#bad #forgotten #i #me #rather






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