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Sophie Hannah Quotes

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: 1971

Topics

Copy Fail Writer Doomed Another

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Future Great Child Me You Strange

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

World Sometimes Say They Say Little

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Work Saying Old Get Luckier Harder

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

Child Challenges Relief Raising

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.

Problems Care Political Labor Meet

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Courage Society Conformity Opposite

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Family Selling Out Your Really

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

Failure People Blame Out Common Who

I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it.

Love Memories Time Mom Growing Over

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

Clifford Geertz

Someone You Look Early Done Now

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Pain Mother-In-Law Out Her Left Had

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

People Down Place Censorship Right

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