Jill Lepore Quotes

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

Jill Lepore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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ChildrenChildhoodPeopleResearch

Starz has been nothing but amazing to me.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

AmazingMeNothingBeen

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

Jean-Michel Jarre

DanceMeMostMusicianEnriching

I am sickened by the idea that anyone would think of me in racist terms.

Steve Clevenger

I AmMeThinkWouldIdeaAnyone

Exercise is great for your mental health!

Stella Maxwell

HealthGreatMental HealthExercise

I had to babysit a lot when I was in high school, and I missed a lot of parties. I felt this longing, like, 'Oh no, I'm going to miss meeting the love of my life at that party!' I feel like that's very Mary Katherine Gallagher.

Molly Shannon

LifeLoveSchoolHigh SchoolMy Life

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Jonathan Franzen

BeginningWritingBookReadingEnjoy

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

Don Johnson

LifeHollywoodUpRespondIndustry

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Dinesh D'Souza

LifeDramaPlayMoralEventsRole

As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.

Del Shores

FamilyLovedComedyKidAlwaysMama

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

Chris Hardwick

AmericanKindBigBowlingOffThen

Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.

Chuck Liddell

GoodBusinessWinHurtYouDown

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

Bobbie Ann Mason

FoodDayGrowing UpFarmGrowingUp

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