Ann Cotton Quotes

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

Ann Cotton

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EducationSuccessSupportBuilding

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.

John Burnside

LifeLovePeopleWritingLongBig

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

Meg Wolitzer

WritingProcessSayWantSelf-Doubt

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

Sue Monk Kidd

SchoolTeaMeGivingHardCharm

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Steve Schirripa

SometimesWatchingBeingLikeMatch

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

Ruth Negga

ToughShyPublic SpeakingSpeaking

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Mary Karr

InspireWeekDesireUpAnythingGet

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

Juan Felipe Herrera

WordsPeoplePoliticalSayHumanUs

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

Jon Krakauer

FindGuiltyMilitaryDesignedAnyone

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

Jonathan Coe

MePlacePlacesMoreLittleSeems

I'm afraid of animals.

JoJo

AnimalsAfraid

If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

Colin Morgan

Not InterestedInterested

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

Arthur Smith

MemoryRememberYouImageAtmosphere

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