Jennifer Johnston Quotes

My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.

Jennifer Johnston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 12, 1930

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Shop on your travels; that way, you can have an exclusive wardrobe.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

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I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Story Musgrave

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Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

Mike Colter

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You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.'

Missy Elliott

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Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Mitt Romney

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I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

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In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

Derek Walcott

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I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Christopher Parker

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I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

Swizz Beatz

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If I have a chance to make a larger amount of money in a legacy fight against the No. 1 welterweight in history, it makes sense for me to want that fight. You have a lot of pay-per-view money coming to this company. Why shouldn't the champion partake in a piece of that pie?

Tyron Woodley

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Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

Thomas Perry

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