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Annie Dillard Quotes

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 30, 1945

Topics

Words Thought First Extrovert Read

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Daughter Dating Watching Over Dollar

I remember liking the MTV awards when I was a kid.

Remember Awards Kid Liking MTV

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Myself Child Learn You Actor Study

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

Intelligence Man Smart Mistake Wise

In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.

Me Looking End Someone Way Up

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.

Women Celebrate Short Violence High

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

I Am Impossible Transportation Ready

I believe a person's style is an expression of who you are - way more than dancing.

Style Believe You Person Way More

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Today Chance Think You Done Just

Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.

Good Challenge Yourself People You

Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between into one of the two clear types. Intersex people themselves have also generally wanted to fit into one of the two clear categories; most are not interested in being in a 'third' type.

Culture People Done Try Everything

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Life Family Good Live Ethics Face

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