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Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 1, 1940

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Mother Water Fire Outdoors Way Heat

I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Jeff Bezos

Think Person Goofy I Think Many Ah

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Amy Waldman

Thinking Want Sitting Write Years

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Amy Irving

Day End Of The Day End Choice Will

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Mary Harris Jones

Leader Alone Man Believe Stand Side

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Mitch Albom

People Short Because Books Who Read

Some things should remain private.

Louis Theroux

Things Some Should Private Remain

That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.

Demetrious Johnson

Beautiful People Think You Outside

Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.

Chloe Benjamin

Research Key Someone You Perfect

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

Christopher Guest

Work Time Movies Way Over Out

Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack of clothes.

Brad Goreski

Work Me Clothes Way Everything Just

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

Ashley Wagner

Skaters Superstitious

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.

Philipp Meyer

People Think Ignore Creation Blood