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Jessica Marais Quotes

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 29, 1985

Topics

Me Reading Never Up Move Favourite

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Good Good And Evil Evil Face Mystery

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

Words Think Language Alien Target

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Details Picture Distance Big Picture

Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

History Adventure Story Living Out

I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

People Know Why Shy Some People

We need to make sure that people get good adequate health care that's not necessarily tied to their insurance, that's not mandated, that's not taxed.

Good Health People Care Insurance

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

Tea Selfish Think Understanding

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.

Design Find Quiet Bear Write Need

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

Family Time I Am Parents Heritage

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage Brave Resources Desperate

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Work Good Leader Great Focus Job

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

Writing Reading Week Write Kid Four

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