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Kim Edwards Quotes

I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.

Kim Edwards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 4, 1958

Topics

Love Dreams Daughter Memory Control

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Joanne Harris

Father Mother Home School Student

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

Power History Best World Generation

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

John Milton

Men Wise Look Wise Men Liberty Then

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Work People Too Much Out Expect

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

Andy Roddick

Memory Think Long You Done Kind

Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.

Roger Altman

Credit Values Cards Lost Within Few

I'm overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.

Jaylen Brown

Work Myself Game Believe Confident

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.

Anne-Marie Duff

Job Queen Theatre You Powerful Done

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

Alice Ripley

Light Words End You Will See

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

Per Petterson

Good Father Son Relationship Time

The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.

Sherrod Brown

Direction Think Country Wrong More

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Thomas Moore

Women Woman Rules Will Disguise Us