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Sue Townsend Quotes

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Sue Townsend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014

Topics

Good Time Me Good And Evil Evil

No two people see things the same way.

Jim Lehrer

People Way Two People Two Same See

I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.

Andrew Breitbart

People Fighting Political Back Down

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Tom G. Palmer

Free Name Questions White First

It's a very big world with some very big characters. And, boy, do you have to be able to stand up for yourself when you walk into a working men's club and negotiate a loan.

Judith McKenna

Walk Men Yourself World Stand Up

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

Johnny Damon

Me Team Go Hot Need Stay

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

Donovan Bailey

Me Back I Can Ready Race Always

I began my career as the switchboard operator at 'Rolling Stone.'

Chris Connelly

Stone Career Rolling Operator Began

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Me World Thinking Way Out Used

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

History People Think You Know Real

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

Asafa Powell

Growing Up Growing Know Kid Up Just

I don't dream small. But then, what are we without our dreams?

Shenaz Treasury

Dreams Small Dream Without Our Then

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Richard P. Feynman

Stars Discovery Earth Kind Atoms