Alice Munro Quotes

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

Jill Scott

GodStepPresentAlwaysBreathHere

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Andy Roddick

JobWorldTennisBeingConvinced

If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.

John Ridley

SupportWhiteWantRaceTryLimit

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

Rob McClure

WiseMeComedyYouPersonKnow

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

Roman Abramovich

LiveSnowNew YorkPeopleThinkNew

Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room.

Mat Kearney

MusicSuitsOutRoomMakingDoctors

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

Constance Zimmer

PeopleHurtBecauseOffBeenMuch

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

William Temple

TimePurposeBelievePresentWish

During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries. I moved in and out of 17 different houses and flats in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington D.C., London and Shenzhen.

Susan Barker

WritingColoradoWashingtonLondon

I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.

Peter Billingsley

SuccessCreditAlwaysTakeBeenAny

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

Sheryl Sandberg

GirlSchoolHigh SchoolYoungWant

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

Martin Landau

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