Allison Pearson Quotes

One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a 13-year-old girl, without exception they all said, 'I would not go back to being 13 for a million pounds.'

Allison Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

John Bercow

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We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Robert Mugabe

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There will come an age when our average life expectancy will reach 200 years.

Masayoshi Son

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Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.

Michael Specter

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If I feel like I'm myself, then I'm very uncomfortable.

Julia Holter

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Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute - you know, very precious - but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.

Joshua Prager

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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker

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The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.

Dennis Crowley

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What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.

Peter York

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These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

Richard MacDonald

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