Dorothy Allison Quotes

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.

Dorothy Allison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 11, 1949

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It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

Jim Nabors

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I'm a genetic optimist.

Jeff Bezos

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Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

John Pearson

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I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

Alyson Stoner

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I came late to the genre of folk music.

Tom Morello

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I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

Rivers Cuomo

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I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.

Romelu Lukaku

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If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

Lizzo

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The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Jonathan Zittrain

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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Douglas Coupland

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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

Chuck D

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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

William Henry Ashley

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