"The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

E. L. Doctorow

#Novelists Quotes #Historian Quotes

“Israel must be wiped off the map.”
“So, thatâ€™s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. Thatâ€™s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”
“I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.”
“The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.”

Source : "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul.org Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org. March 12, 2010.
“With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
“The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.”

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