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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?
We all like all kinds of music. Like, I love Shania Twain.
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
I love Mark Twain's words - 'I've never allowed college to interfere with my education.'
Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
I wouldn't be an artist if I didn't have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to.
The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Going into the past, I've always thought Mark Twain would be cool to hang out with for a little bit.
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
My favorite singer was Shania Twain. I would love for her to sing with me. And J. Lo - they are my favorites.
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain.
I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.
Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.
Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.
For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.
When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.
Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.
I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.
No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Shania Twain. I would always go sing the song 'Honey I'm Home.' I was, like, 12, and I'm singing about coming home from work and PMS and stuff.
I'd love for us to be on our way to having a career like Reba McEntire or Shania Twain; to be Entertainer of the Year, to have headlined big tours, and really be women when we're doing it.
The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids?
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
I've had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain's 'Forever and For Always' whenever I'm there. It's hard to shop for frozen entrees through cold-air blasted tears. Feels good on a flushed face though.
My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.