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Alice Munro Quotes

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

School Competition High School Better

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

John Breaux

Myself Boat Better Congress Done

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Anna Lee

Father Power Prayer Always Been Dad

Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.

Jeff Lindsay

Life Home Creative Ideas My Life

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

Amy Heckerling

School Go Hebrew

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Mason Cooley

Worth Trouble More Fulfillment Than

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

Molly Ivins

Life Quality Fun People Texas Think

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.

Diane von Furstenberg

Humble You Early Lucky Successful

I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.

Dorothy Hamill

Life Love Good Music Me Feel Good

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

Colin Farrell

Beauty Born Kind Way More Always

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

Boris Kodjoe

Time New York Place Paris New Whole

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

Brit Hume

Chance Never Seen Us Who Before

Attaching yourself to success and failure too much is not healthy and good for you. It is better to focus your energy in reinventing yourself as an actor with every film.

Anushka Shetty

Success Failure Good Focus Yourself