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Jean Rhys Quotes

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: August 24, 1894 - May 14, 1979

Topics

Age More Succession Jerks Seldom

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Anna C. Brackett

Freedom Effort Action Acting Will

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

Play Lazy Beyond Piano Read Bare

I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.

Freedom People Feel Want Themselves

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Time Talent Me Writing Famous Up

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Hero Gangster Always Against Been

I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.

Mary Doria Russell

Live Beautiful Experience City Game

I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

Fun People Always Kentucky Different

The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.

Day Thinking Speed You Fast Know

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

Last Like Songs Some Album Guys

I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.

Today Hope Tomorrow Think Better

The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.

Song Name Remember Original Made

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

Christopher Stanley

Chef Kitchen Think Egg I Can Know

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