Rose Tremain Quotes

Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

Rose Tremain

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

  

  Kaki King
  • Important
  • Universe
  • Moment

• I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Important
  • Live
  • Dream

• The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Live
  • Personal

• I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Today
  • Child

• I am and will always be a Laker for life.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Laker

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Important
  • Free
  • Fair

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Imagination

• Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Playing

• What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic.

  

  Lee Child
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Brave

• I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

  

  David Zucker
  • Funny
  • Dumb

• Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Past
  • Running
  • inspirational

• I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

  

  Boris Johnson

• Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

  

  Rose Tremain
  • Life
  • Important
  • Acceptance