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Miriam Toews Quotes

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1964

Topics

Truth Me Writing Feel Kind More

I wasn't even singing when we first started Lion Babe, so my voice has only gotten stronger.

Lion Singing Voice Stronger First

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor Pain Instinct Taking

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Best Chance Long You Kind Odds

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

Robin S. Sharma

Power Time Grow You Days Something

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Failure Confidence You Lose Will

Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it.

Food People Nobody Nobody Cares Old

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

Reputation Difficult Image Spoiled

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

Work Funny Great Day Joy People

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Mother Child You Down Goodness Go

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

Journey Believe Connection Acting

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

World New Prosperity Oil Hold Gas

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

Time Water Ocean Sharks Forget Our

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