Alice Munro Quotes

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildhoodBeginningBookYouClassic

Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

Joel Coen

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People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.

Anna Kendrick

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Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket.

Michael Beasley

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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

Tony Hsieh

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The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Robert D. Kaplan

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So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

Rodrigo Rato

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There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

Rohit Sharma

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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.

Louis Theroux

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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

Jason Priestley

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