Alice Munro Quotes

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 10, 1931

Topics

TimePeopleWindowBridgeLooking

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

John Howe

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We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

Tom Perez

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I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

Martin Short

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You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning.

Mitchell Joachim

LearningMarriageYouWantEvolving

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Milos Forman

MomentManPeopleThinkYouBad

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Demi Moore

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To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody.

Dee Rees

LiveMeYouPlayWickedWitch

We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.

Sun Yat-sen

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God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able.

Peter Marshall

GodGreatWaitingYouGreat Things

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Penelope Fitzgerald

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I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.

Ryan Murphy

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