“Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.” Quote by Lizzie Brochere
“I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.” PeopleWantDifferentStatesInterestingProjectsWant Me Author:Lizzie Brochere
“In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.” ShowsBitsWatchesYogaConcertsDay To DayBiking Author:Lizzie Brochere
“It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.” FilmInterestingPerspectiveAliens Author:Lizzie Brochere
“I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.” WritingInterestBehindsReaderScreensConfession Author:Louis Begley
“If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.” IfsLiteratureGoneCollegeMajorsHarvardComparative Literature Author:Louis Begley
“As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.” KnowsWantWritingEndsEnoughCausesTeachCasesNovelHappenedCenturyEventsLessonsImportanceNovelists19th Century Author:Louis Begley
“I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.” IfsThinkingWritingFirstsSelfWould BeLanguageHavensElementsTestsSentencesAssured Author:Louis Begley
“I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.” ThinkingLawSuccessfulGroupsJewVulnerableGiftedRule Of LawDifferentiateParamount Author:Louis Begley
“In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.” WayDoneFeltPracticeNeededMy WayEngagedClientsRepresentationSerene Author:Louis Begley
“My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.” WorldYearsBookMatterViewsChangedSafetyAffairJew Author:Louis Begley