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Jean M. Auel Quotes

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

Jean M. Auel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 18, 1936

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Time Research Finish Years Origin

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

John Darnielle

Journey Experience Book Think You

A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.

Melvin Van Peebles

Fly Know He Unsound

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Matthew Perry

Life Great Fight Doing You Bad

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Anna Seward

Education Time Attention Professional

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Robert Caro

Beauty New York City Generation New

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

Roger McGough

Good School People Me You Know

Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Mike Quigley

Life Color Violence Country Way Off

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

Joseph Stiglitz

Father Little May Been Kids Than

Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.

Clive Sinclair

Patriotism Stand Year Late Out High

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

Branford Marsalis

Music Words You More Point Anything

Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.