Marilynne Robinson Quotes
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.Marilynne Robinson
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt -
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
Victor LaValle
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman -
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
Rachel McAdams -
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
Taylor Dayne -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins -
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
Mandy Moore -
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Idi Amin
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I'm eager to find the perfect film to shoot during my hiatus from 'Suits'.
Meghan Markle -
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
J. Philippe Rushton -
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
D. H. Lawrence -
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
James Rollins -
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
James Jones -
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
Marilynne Robinson