Michelle Moran Quotes
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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I think it’s more to do with economics now. Earlier, one used to wait in queues for hours in the heat, trying to buy a ticket, to go and see Shammiji in Junglee or Dilip saheb in Ganga Jamuna. Whereas now, thanks to the video boom, one gets the stars in one’s bedroom at a snap of one’s fingers. There is no mystique left.
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You move me, you move me.with your buildings and your eyesAutumn woods and Winter skies.You move me, you move me.Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights.You call me, you call me. - The Analog Kid (1982)
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As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.
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I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
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Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
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After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
