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Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1952

Topics

Mother Parent She Theory Her Been

The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.

Time Myself Best Teen Me Wolf

There's no such thing as holding back. I want to finish as soon as possible. The only time I did it was because he was a friend of mine. It was against Thales Leites. We went until the last round because he's a friend of mine, and I respect him.

Friend Respect Time Back Possible

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

Melanie Laurent

Wake Up Country Old Up France Needs

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

Book Think You Sometimes Kind Where

We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined.

Matthew Heineman

Quality World Rest Care More System

Scoring lots of goals in Italy is much more difficult: they are experts in defending.

Goals More Difficult Italy Much

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Win Honor Cheating Fail Would Even

I'm sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an Alexander Hamilton or a John D. Rockefeller.

Life Success Failure People Hardship

I acted as a kid. I always liked it, but I don't really have a performer's personality.

Personality Kid Always Liked Really

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

World Violence Enjoy Create Spirit

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Live School Team Friends Gym Soccer

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

Myself Woman I Am See Happen I See

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