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Richard Wright Quotes

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960

Topics

Experience Me Looking Seeing Dream

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

Amanda Peterson

Love Live Character Someone You Act

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Mind Human Human Mind Most Some

Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

Sky World Game Hockey Trees Find

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

Life Relationship Health People Want

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.

Mother Children Childhood Story Ask

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Myself Calm Teach Always Stuff

Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

History Storytelling Order Charge

The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it.

Music Beautiful People Party Need

I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

Anne Graham Lotz

God Money Me Start Book Gift

No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.

Sushant Singh Rajput

Life Work Moment People Powerful

I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies.

Grey Skies Miss Away Working Slate

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

Calm Rest Feel Long Want Lived

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