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Joan Lingard Quotes

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: April 23, 1932

Topics

Change Great Time Parents Conflict

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Nature Character Action American Out

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Jennifer Pahlka

Work Government Bureaucracy Way Idea

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Religion Believe Facts Finding True

Idealizing the reality of past romances won't do you any favors as you face Valentine's Day alone.

Alone Valentine's Day Day Past Face

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

Work Alone World Modern Caution

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Someone Kind Director Coach Trainer

I like to make my own mistakes.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mistakes My Own Own Make Like

I am a true constitutionalist, and whether it is our state's rights, personal property rights or the right to bear arms, the federal government will know if they come to Michigan trying to trample our rights, it will have a fight on its hands under a Bouchard administration.

Government Fight I Am Hands Trying

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

Me Voice My Own Sound Own Because

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.

Failure Fly Pants Afraid Seat Our

As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Past Ignore Look Country Like Our

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Best Medicine Sometimes Movies

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