Alice Munro Quotes

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HeroWritingYouSexWhereGet

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

Jesse Eisenberg

TogetherJobMeActingSkillMovies

When the cause is just, and there's been injustice, then it's easy to kind of galvanize your emotions and confront a guy.

Jesse Watters

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Disunion by force is treason.

Andrew Jackson

TreasonForce

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.

Matt Gallagher

WarProudAmericanTraditionBeen

Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink.

Stacy London

LoveColorPinkNothingLittleToo

Tar sands oil is dirtier, more corrosive, and worse for the environment than conventional oil.

Tom Steyer

EnvironmentOilMoreWorseThanTar

I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.

Louis Theroux

WalkYouSeeingKindTryNeed

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Boris Pasternak

WritingEasyModernTranslationFar

What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that.

Annabeth Gish

FamilyChildrenMeHusbandBelieve

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

Scoot McNairy

GreatJobStrongBetterFeelDoing

I don't like to sugarcoat. I don't like to say things without feeling it. I like to get to the point and say exactly what I'm talking about.

Tink

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It's a tremendous asset if you have a visual eye because you can make huge visual statements in a very theatrical way and play to the strength of theatre. But the high end of directing is working with actors and making the acting the best it can be.

Marianne Elliott

StrengthBestTheatreEyeEndYou

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