Julianna Baggott Quotes

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Julianna Baggott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: September 30, 1969

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LifeMyselfChildhoodWritingStart

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

Matt Schulze

LovePerformanceLovedSomeoneStone

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

BestWillHappenFamiliesWriters

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.

Mary Gordon

WomenThinkPoliticalStudentYoung

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Mike Nichols

GodMeDieNever ForgetKnowForget

A hot dog cut up with ketchup is, like, lunch for me, so I just think it's funny to Instagram it. I just don't want to put that much effort into cooking.

Lisa Hanawalt

FunnyDogCookingEffortMeLunch

The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

LifeGreatMindTouchOutNormal

I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement - which they did - and getting Latino organizations to support the women's movement, for reproductive rights. So that's kind of the work that I've always been doing.

Dolores Huerta

WorkWomenSupportDoingKind

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

Christine Quinn

PeopleCityLawyerI CanPlaySaid

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.

Brad Paisley

SmartSongNobodyClassClownGuy

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

Nicolas Cage

FutureChildrenMeImportanceReally

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Richard Cobden

PeaceWarOutCarryMadeNegotiate

I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

Mark Helprin

NightFighterOutTechnically

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