Alice Munro Quotes

'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceSeriousNewEditingFirst

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

Joanne Whalley

TimePeopleYouLoseChoiceKind

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

GodRespectGreatTimeMoralNext

My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.

Joel Fuhrman

BodyWhiteDesireBloodTemperature

I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.

Meghan Trainor

WorkHard WorkGoodStarsEyesBody

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

John Mayer

LifeHappyMy LifeVeryAspects

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Mitch Kapor

EnoughLongGoKnowGoogleEmpires

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Dimebag Darrell

NightRoadWeekThreeWayOut

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

Donald Hall

PoetryMeControlKindSoundLine

I am not Bradley Manning. I really never was.

Chelsea Manning

I AmNeverReallyAm

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Christine Lahti

HopeJobSmallUpHangTake

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Riley

PatriotismSacrificeLongPinnacle

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bobby Knight

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