Alice Munro Quotes

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Jim Jarmusch

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I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.

Jim Barksdale

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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

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My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Tommy Douglas

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Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

Tony Randall

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I do still collect chairs.

Robert Wilson

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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.

Ruth Negga

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My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Louis Garrel

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Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.'

Jonathan Van Ness

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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

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As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Don Bluth

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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross

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