Deborah Moggach Quotes

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

Deborah Moggach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 28, 1948

Topics

LifeChildrenWelcomeWritingGoUp

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

Jim Gilmore

CreativityCreativePeopleRules

Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

Jeremy Grantham

GrowthTogetherAnimalFreeCredit

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

Shirley Chisholm

StereotypesOthersUsMustOnly

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Rodney Crowell

MemoryWritingYouKnowTrueKid

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Jay Ryan

FamilyPeopleWorldThinkDoing

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

Janet Varney

LoveComedyDoingActingSometimes

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

Dmitri Alperovitch

CyberNationEconomicBenefitVery

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

China Mieville

FamilyFeelYouPersonWayNever

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

Christina Tosi

SmileStrengthSuccessFailureBoss

I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We must remain unified to defeat this evil.

Boris Trajkovski

EvilControlDownDefeatUnderstand

I kind of don't like doing film commentaries because I think they're kind of weird.

Peter Segal

ThinkWeirdDoingKindFilmBecause

In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.

Sergio Mattarella

FreedomPresentMafiaNeedAlways

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