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Susan Orlean Quotes

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Susan Orlean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1955

Topics

Work Children Persistence Experience

Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison

Weird Will Your

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Jet Li

Life Truth Go Talk More Study

I always say leave things at the door. Whether it's at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the day away. Keep persevering, stick to yourself. Don't do what other people ask, do what you want!

Jenna Ushkowitz

Day Yourself People Door Problems

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

Andrew O'Hagan

Culture Animals Human First Seek

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Matthew Simpson

Knowledge Small Look Through Own

That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people.

Trombone Shorty

Dreams People Always Been Able

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.

Matisyahu

Morning Sleep People Ideas You Sex

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

Mike Love

Sleep Rest Deep Meditation Down Go

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

Dimebag Darrell

Black Hell Inspiration Sabbath Like

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

Doug Ose

Wealth Create Know Investment Happen

There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad.

Colin Trevorrow

Good Bad Human Dinosaurs Prey Park

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

Brian Mulroney

Planning Priorities Environment