Born Quotes
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
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I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
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Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.
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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
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The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
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'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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I'm the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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You can be born gay, but not because of your genetics, I think because of your subconscious more than your genetics. I think genetically, we're made to reproduce. We can't survive this route. Genetically, that's the way to go. Genetically, we have to reproduce, but subconsciously, and preferentially, you can be born with that.
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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
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It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
