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Miriam Toews Quotes

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.

Miriam Toews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1964

Topics

Life Writing Busy Search Long You

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

Michael Cerveris

Father Time First Time First Kid

President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

Stephanie Cutter

Health Care Insurance Back Fraud

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

Stewart Rahr

Responsibility Feel Back Fortunate

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Mary Harris Jones

Win Constitution End Lost Always

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.

Douglas Wilder

People Forward Looks New Backwards

Yeah, I like to gamble.

Chazz Palminteri

Like Gamble Yeah

Women have a better understanding of social issues, and better representation gives them an opportunity to address these issues.

Sharad Pawar

Women Opportunity Better Social Them

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Titus Flavius Vespasian

Die Standing Emperor Becomes

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

Rick Scott

Good Business Think You Down Hand

In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.

Linda Colley

History Practice Citizens Some

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Kelly Miller

Down Defeat Strange Falling Her

The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.

Kimbal Musk

Opportunity Food Day Reality Three