Margaret Forster Quotes
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
Quotes to Explore
-
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
-
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
-
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
-
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
-
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
-
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
-
I believe in aging gracefully.
-
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
-
Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
-
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
-
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
-
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
-
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
-
Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
-
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
-
Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
-
What you have witnessed since Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to the 1991 invasion of Iraq is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis of a butterfly into a slug.
-
Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
-
Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
-
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
