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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. -- Theodore Sturgeon
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. -- Ty Cobb
I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel. -- Dr. Seuss
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it. -- Dan Quayle
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. -- W. Somerset Maugham
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. -- Mitt Romney
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. -- J. Paul Getty
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. -- Michelle Obama
I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that? -- Friedrich St. Florian
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet. -- Karl Marlantes
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. -- John Green
I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I'd missed. -- Susan Choi
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. -- Renzo Piano
The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo! -- Kim Harrison
Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun. -- Ray Davies
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure. -- Constance Hale
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed. -- Tony Bennett
Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing. -- George Carlin
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead. -- Jasmine Cresswell
[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is. -- Michael Buble
It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent. -- Maureen Corrigan
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do. -- Eric Stoltz
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. -- Edgar Winter
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. -- Anne Waldman
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. -- Curt Flood
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. -- Elizabeth Warren
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. -- Dorothy Garlock
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. -- Laura Benanti
We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have. -- John Kasich
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it. -- Mike Nichols
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. -- Henry Rollins
The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good. -- Donald Wuerl
There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end. -- Abraham Lincoln
An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper. -- Nathan Rabin
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -- J. D. Hayworth
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. -- Bruce Babbitt
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny. -- Naomi Wolf
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point. -- Daniel Suarez
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world. -- Ben Dreyfuss
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today. -- Hal Holbrook
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public. -- Morris Dees
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high -- Hideki Tojo
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. -- Hideki Tojo
For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution. -- Stephen Covey
I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board -- Michelle Obama
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice. -- Alan Keyes
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world! -- Alexander Hamilton
I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me. -- Christopher Nolan
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women. -- Jami Attenberg
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn't work out very well, as you can imagine. -- Kevin Barry
People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing. -- Lou Reed
Losing is the great American sin. -- Jerome Holtzman
I think 'American Pie' is great. -- Paul Dano
Our great American writers were all newspaper people. -- John Gould
Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Regis has a great rapport with the American public. -- Wink Martindale
A great American city is fighting for its life. -- Marc Morial
Paste may be the last great American music magazine left. -- Patterson Hood
The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward -- Michael Chabon
American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise. -- Rita Ora
Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena. -- Duncan Hunter
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, -- Eduardo J. Padron
I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here. -- Tim Cook
Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great. -- Bridget Everett
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. -- William Nicholson
The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes. -- Rosario Dawson
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. -- Alexis Denisof
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. -- John Quincy Adams
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time. -- Lane Garrison
The '60s were a time of great change in American music. -- Alexandra Patsavas
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. -- David Baltimore
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. -- Gore Vidal
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. -- Walt Whitman
I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American. -- Warren Buffett
I'm also a big 'American Idol' fan. I think it's just great fun. -- Jim Parsons
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. -- George Packer
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. -- Rand Paul
From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors. -- John Hurt
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads. -- John Grisham
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. -- Jean Renoir
I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people. -- David Halberstam
I'm going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great. -- Barack Obama
One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it. -- Hayden Schlossberg
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy. -- Noel Gallagher
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us. -- LaToya London
One of the things that made American Pie great was also the sexiness of it. -- Hayden Schlossberg
Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong? -- Froma Harrop
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. -- Kimberley Locke
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. -- Emmanuelle Beart
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. -- Jacques Maritain
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. -- Simon Van Booy
President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed. -- Amy Poehler
I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. -- Don King
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. -- Jack Abramoff
I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that. -- Kimi Raikkonen
I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.' -- Joe Biden
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties. -- Barry Manilow
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. -- Pierre Salinger
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny. -- Donald Freed
American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art. -- Woody Allen
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. -- Ridley Scott
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. -- Gore Vidal
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. -- Ethan Suplee
Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China -- David Letterman
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' -- Daniel Tammet
I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people. -- Bart Starr
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. -- Theodore Dreiser
It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation. -- George W. Bush
I'm nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible. -- Elon Musk

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