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Michelle Dean Quotes

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.

Michelle Dean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

Women Forward Story American Doing

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Joe Cocker

Good Think You Play Able Instrument

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

John Hillcoat

Love People Violence You See Well

We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.

Stephen Fincher

Money Remember Washington Printing

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Roger Mudd

Past Ethics Surprise Media Country

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

Christopher Alexander

Dreams Power Quality Reality Build

I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.

Allison Tolman

Work Me You Television Stop Lights

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

Work Health People Me Talk Little

The scene we shot with Charlie Rose was actually the last piece that was ever shot for 'Breaking Bad.' My daughter and I flew to New York; we got to shoot in the 'Charlie Rose' studio. Adam Godley and Jessica Hecht are such expert performers that we were able to get it very beautifully and very quickly.

Peter Gould

Daughter New York Rose Bad New Get

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

Paullina Simons

Growing Up Growing Up Books Anna

Elections have consequences.

Scott Walker

Consequences Elections

I know there are a lot of people who believe in me as a player and a person, and I don't want to let them down.

Tim Tebow

People Me Believe Down Person Know

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

Nina Bawden

School College Year Back Grammar Us