Alice Walker Quotes

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

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All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

Amitava Kumar

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It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

Stephen LaBerge

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We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

Shirley Manson

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I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing.

Rupi Kaur

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All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

Martin Villeneuve

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I do have love for Japan. At the same time, I have a complex relationship with Japan because I'm Korean. But I think it shows the strength of a country when you can talk about the past transparently.

Min Jin Lee

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There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

Josephine Hart

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I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?'

Josh Hutcherson

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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Jonathan Sacks

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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Cornel West

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The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.

Winnie Holzman

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