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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published -... - Tama Janowitz

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

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'Hear My Heart' was constructed with the deaf in mind. I wanted a bass line that felt like a heartbeat. I wanted to be able to touch the speakers and feel a clear sense of rhythm.

I've always had full confidence in the professionalism and the assessment of the armed forces.

When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

Francois de Malherbe

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Garry Shandling

If my Michael Jackson routine left even one person feeling uncomfortable or less joyful, I felt like it was in everyone's best interest to change the music to my routine.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I never went through an easy fight. Every fight has been hard fought.

My favorite Subway sandwiches are meatball and chipotle chicken.

'The Homesman' is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.

We think the biggest and most important thing House of Fraser is missing is luxury brands.

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players', was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.

I think college prepared me at a really high level. High school, you can take some plays off on the defensive end. Not on purpose, but if your man gets tired, you can rest a little bit. But once you get to college, and especially in the NBA, you can't do that. Even if my man gives the ball up, I'm on help side, helping my team out.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov