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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: polish
Birth: March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966

Topics

Reading Same Pleasure Books Who

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quiet Go Minds Clock Own Fortune

On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.

Work Family Women Important Pay

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Ending End Surprise Garden Find Big

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Life Work Family Time I Am Self

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

John W. Gardner

Politics Talent Poverty Every

Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?

Fire Government Building Understand

My ego thinks I would like to be considered for more heavyweight roles, but the price you pay for that is they are always the same kind of roles.

Ego You Price Kind More Pay

I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

Family Me Worry Lost Used Resilient

Our deep collaboration with ABC News further strengthens Yahoo! as the No. 1 online news source, greatly enhancing our already robust news content.

Collaboration Deep News Content Our

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'

Girl About Anna Fancied

In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.

Trying Personal Risk Nation Going

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Great Would Still Making Films

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