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Allison Pearson Quotes

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

Allison Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: welsh
Birth: 1960

Topics

Mother Home Son New York Baby Doing

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Mountain Think Somewhere Valley Shot

The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.

Character Truth Think Reality Comedy

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

Michael Flatley

Love Wife Down My Own Own Dancers

I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.

Happy Treat You Donald Trump Will

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

School Graduation Degree University

I learned from McDonald's that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn't superior, it might not matter.

Great Perspective Experience McDonald

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

Men Dating Rules Older Men Date

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

Acting More Two Always Act Aware

In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.

Bullying Blame Solution Immigrants

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

Joshua Oppenheimer

History Evil Impossible Understanding

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Jorge Luis Borges

Day Man New Will Soldiers Left

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Death Stand Long Enemy Complaining

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