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Annie Dillard Quotes

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mind Living Hard Call Something

Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein's theory of relativity - so far, it's holding up well. They may even one day act as navigational beacons for spacecraft. I'll never tire of them; they really are the most extraordinary objects.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Day Universe Test One Day Never Up

I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. I don't mince my words.

Good Words Me Bad React See

Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

Democracy Problem Country Understand

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

Music Me Hair Feel Racing Emotional

I was quite frustrated by school and found solace in going to the drama studio, doing stupid voices, and being an idiot. I then went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama and signed with a great agent in my third year.

Tom Glynn-Carney

Music Great School Stupid Year

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

Father Time People Me Person First

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

Future Music People Think Out Get

I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

Deborah Joy Winans

God Perspective Mind Think Sure

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

Bradley Wiggins

Balance Down Difficult Right Fine

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

Good Beautiful Great Day Simple

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

Leadership Believe Think Lonely Like

Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.

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