Shana Alexander Quotes

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

Shana Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1925 - June 23, 2005

Topics

LifeFamilyHappyWritingYouUs

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Jesse Jackson

MeBornI Was BornSlum

Laughing a lot is really good for you, embracing your children's future and embracing your grandchildren, and not having regrets and not being bitter and not being angry.

Jerry Hall

GoodFutureChildrenAngryYou

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

Jenna Marbles

LifeCharacterThinkMy LifeYou

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Andre Leon Talley

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We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

Jeff Fortenberry

ServiceWantFaithfulBusinessmanHe

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

Sissy Spacek

MusicGrowing UpCountryGrowingUp

School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

Troy Garity

BusinessArtSchoolWorldYouCraft

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.

Michael Korda

GreatExperienceAmbitionBookWhite

I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.

Johnny Van Zant

LifeManSongTryAlwaysGoing

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Dimebag Darrell

BeautyTryingFindPlayUpStarted

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

Denis O'Hare

MeThinkThoughtDoingYearYou

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

Chris Isaak

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