“I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.” DoeMatterNextNamesFocusHighestTrainOpponentsConcentration Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“I would say that Roger Federer is pretty amazing. And Manny Pacquiao - he's such a tiny, little lightweight guy, but the way he fights makes people so excited.” PeopleWayLittlesGuyFightingExcitedTinyRogerFedererPacquiao Author:Wladimir Klitschko
“Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.” IfsWorldArtEndsFeelingsArtistCultureReligiousRocksSakePopsOfficialsDeniedYearningSeventiesTranscendentalArt WorldAvant GardeWarholPop ArtAvant Garde Art Author:Dan Graham
“I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.” RunningMy OwnNovelThemeRealisingHauntingMy Own LifeObsessing Author:Dani Shapiro
“If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.” IfsWritingHurtCreativeBlameMemoirBe Creative Author:Dani Shapiro
“How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'” WritingSimpleAnswers Author:Dani Shapiro
“My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.” LooksMadeBeautifulParentDecisionFocus Author:Dani Shapiro
“Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.” ThinkingFeelsMeanPersonsReligiousPracticeDevotionMemoirRelateTitlesHave FaithFidelity Author:Dani Shapiro
“I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.” PersonsCountryUrbanLiving In The Country Author:Dani Shapiro
“Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?” IfsBookNextDealsHugeFleetingGood BookThe Next One Author:Dani Shapiro