Jean Craighead George Quotes

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Jean Craighead George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodBestWritingInterestingDoing

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Jim Hodges

EvidenceThingsInterestedHolding

By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.

Robert Reich

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I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.

Michael Bennet

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To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Trevor McDonald

FeelYouLivingYearsPretendAfter

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Michelle Hunziker

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When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Mick Mars

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The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

JR

Social MediaThinkMediaMoreSocial

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

Chris Hayes

WordsClimbFriendsFindDownWill

Everything in horror film is about transgression, and the young audience wants to touch something that is forbidden and is, by function, anti-establishment. It is a way for young audiences to express rebellion and also to deal with very modern fear but in a very playful way, in a very symbolic way.

Christophe Gans

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I used to do a lot of yoga, but I tend to lose a lot of weight when I do that.

Colton Haynes

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Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Pythagoras

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When I see stimulus money being used to attack American companies and American workers, I think it would be very unsettling to be working on the assembly line of Coca Cola, look up, and see an ad that's trying to hurt the very job that you make your wages and pay taxes from.

Scott DesJarlais

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