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Miriam Toews Quotes

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

Miriam Toews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1964

Topics

Life Failure Goals Character Window

God has always been hard on the poor.

Jean-Paul Marat

God Poor Hard Always Been

My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us.

Michael Gove

Money Risks Challenges Control World

My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another one. We read 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and I still remember the cover.

Stephen Karam

Journey School High School Remember

Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.

Summer Sanders

Good Preparation Eating Busy You Go

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Children Parents Bad Place Should

If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

Michel Faber

Villain Someone You Skin Kind Get

Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

Juan Williams

Tea Writing Win Party Run Swing

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

Dee Dee Ramone

Done Rap Well Too

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

Conor McGregor

Doubt Place Go Way Odds Kid

I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.

Bonnie Hunt

Father Mother God School Angry Me

'The Fast' is tough; it's not easy. It represents too much to too many people. But that's what also makes it fun.

Paul Walker

Fun People Tough Easy Fast Too Much

Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.

Tim Ferriss

You Place Shoe Try Size Nike