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Mem Fox Quotes

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: March 5, 1946

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Mother Myself Woman Thought She Get

I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.

Think Thought Stop More Always Arts

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Politics Strong Slow Boring Hard

Watching someone getting really angry can be very funny - if it doesn't affect you, you can laugh at it, and the sillier the thing he's angry about, the funnier it is.

Funny Angry Laugh Someone You He

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

Work History Time Experience Poetry

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

Power Experience Ethics Innocence

I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces... or my brothers... in the audience. It comforts me.

Strength Good Parents Luck Good Luck

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

Truth Heart Know Want Every Public

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Vision Political Hill First Movement

I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

You Know Now Kind Mental Illness

There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

Life Art Entertainment Difference

My wife makes the best chocolate chip pancakes, and my son and I are only too happy to stay home and eat them.

Home Son Best Wife Happy Chocolate

I have no memories of my childhood in Texas. When I was about four, we moved to San Francisco. I was in the middle of seven brothers and sisters: three girls and four boys. Most of my older brothers and sisters got the blame for everything, and the little ones had a free ride. We loved each other but fought like cats and dogs.

Memories Cats Ride Childhood Blame

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