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William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1906 - July 24, 1997

Topics

Family Home Ideas World Destined

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

Hope Time Dream Way Write Over

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Style Best Trying You Find Way

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.

Life Love Myself People Saying Up

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Great Gold Win Accomplishment You

I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I'd look like a jerk. That's why I became an enigma to people.

Memories Myself People Talking Look

My name is Lithuanian. My father was born there, and he gave me a cool name. It's the Lithuanian national flower - looks like a weed, a little bit like me! - although in Spanish it means a 'route' or 'road,' and in Swedish it means 'square'. So, not quite so cool in those countries.

Flower Father Me Cool Road Name

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Mike Krzyzewski

Time Football School High School Out

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Joyce Carol Oates

Negative Energy Someone Encouragement

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Education Alive Now United Well

A lot of movies come out and you think, 'Couldn't you have just tried a little harder?'

Think You Movies Out Little Just

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Women Man Bad Optimist Pessimist

I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.

Want Up Wanted Storyteller Grew

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