Anita Diament Quotes

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

Anita Diament

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1951

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PeopleCollegeMeBookChurchMore

I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really enjoy it.

Jessie J

BeautyCreativeHairThinkEnjoy

I don't need to be liked.

John Malkovich

NeedLiked

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

John McCarthy

ManBookReadingSomeoneTrueWill

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

GodWisdomMePossessionsReturn

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

Tracy Morgan

LifeThinkEarlyPersonSometimes

It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

Travis Fimmel

Be DifferentWeirdTryingWhatever

If I do a bad dive, that's in the past. Move on. The next dive is a completely separate thing. It's just about being really present in a particular moment.

Tom Daley

MomentPastPresentBadMove On

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

JusticePastLawCountryRule Of Law

I don't think I win most interviews. For instance, with Fidel Castro, I only spoke with him one minute and three seconds. But I think he won because I couldn't get anything from him. With the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, it happened exactly the same thing.

Jorge Ramos

WinThinkThreePresidentAnything

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

CharacterKnowledgeGreatResearch

I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin

BusinessPeopleThinkAmericanYou

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

Clifford Geertz

SoulPeopleLiteratureRememberNew

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