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Michelle Dean Quotes

My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

Michelle Dean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

Child Parents Church Only Child Only

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age Children Shows Merely Remain

It's truly an honor to get to write Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and all those great people, but when you can take something that's not well thought of and make it something that people do think highly of, that's much more gratifying, I think.

Andrew Kreisberg

Great Woman People Think Thought

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Robin Trower

People Feeling Down I Can Play Go

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

Learning Camera See Without Tool

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

Job Start Book Think Thinking Know

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Brian Eno

Work Best Do Your Best Musicians You

I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.

Richie Havens

Me Doing Late Go Said First

When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.

Mark Duplass

People You Black-And-White Swing Two

You have to look for story. That's obvious. If that's not on the page, you can forget it. But I also read whatever character I'm being offered. And if you can cut them out without it affecting the story, then I say no straight away.

Liam Cunningham

Character Story You Look Forget Say

You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do.

Kelly Olynyk

Influence You I Can Skill See Shoot

Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.

Leo Varadkar

Family Marriage Woman Man View Our

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.

Jane Leavy

Baseball War World Financial Soil