“Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.”
Mary Gaitskill (1954) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Interview on NPR All Things Considered, April 19, 2009.
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 78 (p. 550)
“Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.”
Mary Gaitskill (1954) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Interview on NPR All Things Considered, April 19, 2009.
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”
Billie Holiday book Lady Sings the Blues
Source: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 20.
“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Speech http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-036-014.aspx to the Trustees and Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in the White House Movie Theater, 14 November 1961 <br class="br">1961
Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)
Jean Chrétien (1934) 20th Prime Minister of Canada
Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 38
“If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Trust Yourself
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Last statement to the House of Commons as Prime Minister, ending by paraphrasing his 2005 comment to Tony Blair, "he was the future once" (July 13, 2016), see Hansard https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-07-13/debates/4A1B874C-54B5-4BEF-8D79-AFA264A78068/Engagements#contribution-E7A04179-9154-4077-87DF-1642C1BD3B4D <br class="br">2010s, 2016