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Alice Munro Quotes

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Reading Something Read Often

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

Care You Nobody Say Want Need

Obamacare is, 'Patient, heal yourself.'

Yourself Patient Obamacare Heal

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

Health Myself School Law Insurance

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.

Easy You Become One Thing Second

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

Robert Guillaume

Great Racism Me Thought Impact Said

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Love Respect Language Loving Glory

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

People Need Up Narrative Make Offer

I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.

Michael Beasley

Day Wife School Tired Care Up

Talk about the issues that matter most to people.

People Matter Talk Most Issues

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Robertson Davies

You Want Never See Forever Playing

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Think Ordinary Because Our Familiar

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

Good Job Support Look Actor Film

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