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9 quotes by John Burnham Schwartz

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In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

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I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's... →

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Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

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For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

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It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

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Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.

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Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an... →

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In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they... →

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The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the... →

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