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Andrea Seigel Quotes

I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.

Andrea Seigel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 28, 1979

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Yourself School Tired Lunch End

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

Jimmy Iovine

Problems Industry Artists Interested

Ultimately, a running back has to get rid of tacklers without his blockers being a part of it.

Jim Brown

Back Without Being Get Running Part

Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.

Joe Garcia

People Think Status Quo Cuba Opening

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

Joan Didion

Time Style Myself School Me Reading

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

Best Short Three Mature Books Poems

I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

Alyson Hannigan

Good Time Fun Me Good Times Doing

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Alphonso Jackson

Best Government I Am World Know Two

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Sonia Sotomayor

Spiritual I Am Week Sunday Person

I felt that if I could make the world better for the young, that would be the greatest thing we can do.

Shimon Peres

World Better Young Greatest Would

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

Tony Dungy

Time Football Baseball Me Basketball

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Tom Wolfe

Great Year Bad My Own Never Own

Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?

Tom Douglas

Love Morning Coffee Cake Enough Out