Jean Craighead George Quotes

I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.

Jean Craighead George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1919 - May 15, 2012

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Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

Joanna Scott

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Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Robert Redford

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The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.

Angela Merkel

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While we know, on average, that certain positions experience more repetitive head impacts and are more likely at greater risk for CTE, no position is immune.

Ann McKee

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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

Alvaro Enrigue

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Anytime Pump and I make a track together, it's always crazy.

Smokepurpp

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An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Sidney Poitier

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In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Rory Bremner

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As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won't do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.

Ronnie Musgrove

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When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

Luke Goss

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I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.

Chris Pavone

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If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

Chuck Grassley

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