Quotes About Author

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.

I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.

I did not come to Congress to impeach the President. But I took an oath to protect our country and defend the Constitution.

I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution when I joined the Navy over 25 years ago.

I mean, the whole enterprise, all of Obamacare is immoral.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.

It's incredibly hypocritical of Eddie to object to filming around my children, especially given how public he lives his life.

I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

I am gratified by Arsenal's interest, certainly, but my objective is to come back for Milan and do well at Milan.

My objective is to coach the national team.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

I love 'Gone Girl,' so bringing 'Sharp Objects' to life, that was amazing.

People come to me to say I don't sell; Brazilian media say I don't give interviews. Nobody is obligated to do anything.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.