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Marilynne Robinson Quotes

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Marilynne Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 26, 1943

Topics

Work Time Long Know Long Time First

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

Power Light Simple Darkness Racism

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Passion Mind Drunkenness

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

Anna Deavere Smith

Day People Every Day Race Talk More

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

Succeed You First Skydiving Then

Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Value Name Movies Independent Got

Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us.

Lloyd Blankfein

Time Money Government Happy People

I've always felt more comfortable in the company of women, and as far as girlfriends go, they've each been a learning experience. You meet someone at a certain point in your life, then break apart, but you always share that time.

Life Learning Women Time Experience

Are you kidding? They had me at 'Star Wars.' The kid inside me would've clawed his way out and strangled me if I'd turned this job down.

Job Me You Down Way Kid

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

Happy Be Happy I Can Public Private

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

Child Parents Financial Living Only

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

You Television Heroes Excited Just

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Me Texas Play Go Way Same

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