Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Augusten Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1965

Topics

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On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.

Jeff Buckley

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We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Amy Chua

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It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

Sterling Marlin

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I forget I'm on a TV show sometimes.

Tom Hopper

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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.

Alija Izetbegovic

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But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

Julianne Hough

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You can tell a lot in shorthand.

Jane Goldman

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Don't give tips to friends who are about to have babies unless they ask!

Jamie Cullum

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For my money, all theatre should be free.

Jamie Parker

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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

James Patterson

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Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

Gordon Ramsay

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Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Erin McKean

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