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Harvey Pekar Quotes

I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

Topics

Good Dance Lie People Me Thought

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.

World Face Think Bridges Look Blood

To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.

Jennifer Garner

Life Good New York My Life You New

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Money Wish Fame More Fortune Oregon

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.

People Look Back Say Living Flow

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.

Meredith Brooks

Life Spiritual Influence Decisions

What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.

Judge Go Now Privilege Profound Who

When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

Family Time You Now Butt Happens

Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.

Music Means Much Really Transcends

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

Equality You White Person Know Mean

My first album is playful.

First Playful Album

Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.

Michael Robotham

Story Violence Moments Inevitable

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Go Go For It Before Every Script

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