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Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I happened to see a really old 'Doctor Who', the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he'd picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, 'That's rather fetching.'

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1952

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Man Doctor Thought Old Man Old See

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

Joe Nichols

Little Things Thank You Church You

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.

Jill Lepore

Father School Week Summer Go Kid

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Joan Chen

Enough Poverty Poor Never Meat Rice

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

John Eccles

Age Experience Medical Problem Up

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Anatoly Rybakov

Heart Memory People Own Tool Writer

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

Megan Smith

Science History Facts Learn Someone

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

Angelina Jolie

Life Family Live Moment Start You

I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

Angus Deaton

Good Bad Inequality Debate One-Sided

All the time, even before we had mainstreamed, it was like we were never really Christians because of the way we looked. Or, you know, we were never Christian enough, or we're too Christian at times. You can't please people.

Sonny Sandoval

Time People Christian Enough You

I feel like I know how to write plot.

Mike White

Feel Know Write I Feel Like Plot

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Dionne Warwick

Happiness Sad Tears Sadness Reason

I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.

Derek Jeter

Home Walk Story Someone Attention