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Marilynne Robinson Quotes

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Marilynne Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Growing Up World Find Growing

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Success People You Wonder Person

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

Power Law Country Office Individual

When we shot the pilot for 'Voyager,' Armin Shimmerman, who played Quark on 'Deep Space Nine,' was very gracious and outgoing about preparing us for these personal appearances. Still, nothing really can prepare you for the first time when you walk out on stage and 2,000 people in a room stand up and applaud simply because you're there.

Time Walk Space People Stand Up You

I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.

Love Time Woman Tough Think Fall

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Beauty Myself Saying Talking Know

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Music Think Body Play Rock Filter

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

Small Small Town Georgia Corner Up

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

Family Miami Panama I Came Came

Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

Age Me Diary Impression Big Made

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

Michelle Dockery

Work Love People Powerful Now Will

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

Life Music Me Think My Life Talking

Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Time Fire Travel People Fearless

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