Annie Dillard Quotes

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

Jim Parsons

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Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

Joan Kirner

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I am a sociologist, God help me.

John O'Neill

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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Maxwell Maltz

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To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

Robert Kennedy

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I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Amy Bloom

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One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

Steve Bannon

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I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

Sigourney Weaver

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Great players must always produce and at any time or in any game. Give them a ball and a pitch, and they will show what they've got. That relaxed, calm spirit you don't really have when you are young.

Robin Van Persie

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You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

Roger Ailes

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Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.

Lleyton Hewitt

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I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

Dolly Parton

Songs

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