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Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: June 20, 1743 - March 9, 1825

Topics

Thought Dead Midnight Noon

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Best Learn You Late Lying Prove

I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.

I Am Me Country Stop Know Street

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Peace Political Satire Prize Henry

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Think Silly Actor Always Being Bit

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

College Me Theatre Restaurant Hotel

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Life Children Art Bath Bubble Awe

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

Family People City Me Farm You

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

You More Something Speaking Female

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Work Love Succeed More Shirt Sell

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

Personality People City Down New

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Humor Mind Planned Off Our Takes

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Work People You Will More Valuable

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