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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 12, 1943

Topics

Light Research You Know Difficult

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

Day Writing Thinking Every Day Want

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Good Yourself You Burn Leaving Up

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

Communication Growth Process Ahead

There is no point of doing anything if you're not going to do it all the way.

Doing You Way Point Anything Going

I've made it a habit not to burn any bridges.

Habit Bridges Burn Made Any

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

People Kentucky Tennessee Came

I liked going to Catholic school.

School Going Catholic School Catholic

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Women Me Afraid Interest Been Hurts

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Live Knowledge People You Play Up

How many girls, models or not, are secure about their bodies? I think I'm more realistic about what to expect of myself now. I also have a lot of other things than modeling going on in my life that I'm proud of.

Life Myself Proud Think My Life Now

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Music Me Thinking Radio Anything

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

Age Child Loved Problem Young Lucky

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