Judith Tarr Quotes

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1955

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A movie that makes me cry every time is 'Billy Elliot.' That scene where he's dancing in the hall, and his dad walks in. And the first time his dad can see how amazing he is dancing, but he's so conflicted with kind of his own feelings towards it. Oh, it's so emotional.

Jodie Comer

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

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Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

Meryl Streep

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Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.

John Podhoretz

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The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

Sid Vicious

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I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

Rob Van Dam

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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Mary Oliver

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I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

Mary Roach

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As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.

Mona Eltahawy

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I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Lou Gehrig

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Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Julia Glass

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It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

Lisa Randall

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