Jean Fritz Quotes

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.

Jean Fritz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1915 - May 14, 2017

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He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Menachem Begin

FindDeafWillListenRationalUs

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

Max von Sydow

AcceptSomethingRoleOnlyLike

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

Anna Paquin

YouFeelingEverythingBeingJust

Everything in moderation. I keep a healthy body, a healthy look. It's important not to be obsessive about anything - fitness, training, eating - because then you end up focusing on only that. And you can't obsess about anything when you're on the road.

Ana Ivanovic

FitnessTrainingEatingRoadEnd

Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most.

Tristram Stuart

PeopleFindingChoiceFarmersNeed

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

Mike Nichols

WeekWatchWestWouldFanWing

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

GreatManHeavenSometimesHimDeal

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Michael Lomenda

OpportunityOilUpLittleFields

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

Joyce Maynard

FamilyMoneyTravelComedyTragedy

In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader one centred on value addition in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.

Arancha Gonzalez

GrowthFocusValueAgriculture

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce

NatureFaithI AmUnderstandingSee

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Mark McGwire

BestBaseballToughKnowGoingGive

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