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Alice Munro Quotes

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work People I Can More Mean Always

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation Repetition System Constant

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

Andre Kostelanetz

Seeing Audience Advantage Conductor

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

Mayer Hawthorne

Together Soul Think You Modern Get

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Time Genius Stereotype Our Time Our

I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.

Bike Summer California Company Out

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Good Business I Am People Survive

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Robert B. Laughlin

Amazing Understand First Real Bell

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Ludwig van Beethoven

Words Me Heaven I Can Will Yes

Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.

Fear Pain Memory Tired Parents Me

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

Country Driven Stuff Songs Most

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Children Language Tolerance Argument

After a world title run, you can't really call someone else your leader.

Leader World Someone You Run Call

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