Allison Pearson Quotes

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Allison Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: 1960

Topics

MarriageChildrenRememberYouBack

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

Anna Howard Shaw

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My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Jeanne Moreau

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I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

Michael Ignatieff

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I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

Dianna Agron

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I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.

Deborah Moggach

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.

Brian J. Smith

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Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

Bryan Fogel

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If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

Sylvester Stallone

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The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.

Sun Yat-sen

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You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

Shaun Cassidy

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We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

Scott Walker

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