Marianne Elliott Quotes

I just think that you have to approach anything you do with a huge amount of integrity - I don't really care where it comes from, whether it's a children's piece or an adult piece.

Marianne Elliott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 27, 1966

Topics

IntegrityChildrenThinkCareYou

I was stationed in Turkey, Mexico City, South America, Texas, Arizona, so I do know where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

Joe Arpaio

CityBorderTexasAmericaKnow

I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

Jennifer Egan

LiveNew YorkDoorWritingThink

I love the sea, and I never mind when it's rough.

Robert Stigwood

LoveSeaMindNeverRoughI Love

You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time, you raise the bar.

Ann Patchett

KnowledgeTimeExperienceBookLearn

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

Sigrid Undset

LifeFatherEuropeAlmostTraveling

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

Michele Bachmann

DecisionPeopleBelieveThinkingRun

I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'

Lisa Jewell

LifeChildrenTimeDaySchoolWish

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SillyFindSayKindMealLike

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Jonny Lee Miller

LiveHumorSimpleNew YorkAmerica

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleNothingQuarterCommonBeen

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Donald Hall

WorkYouKnowContentmentWorking

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Connor Jessup

LoveHistoryLawWorldPhilosophy

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