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Monica Johnson Quotes

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1946 - November 1, 2010

Topics

God People Plan Plans Galaxy Same

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Work Father Home Me World Library

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Creative Brother Me Friends You See

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Writing Reading Easy Damn Way Right

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Stanley Baldwin

Gentleman Intelligent Intelligentsia

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

Home Age Myself Past Care Grow

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Shirley Henderson

Laugh Humour Sense Like Scottish

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Culture Rest London Celebrity Out

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

Born Shame Reason Without Sense

To be able to watch something that you start on your television that you then move to your mobile device, I think that's a big benefit for the content business.

Business Start Think You Television

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Book Find Important Your Noticed

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

God People Festivals I Can Go Open

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

Change Change The World Travel World

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