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Jan Karon Quotes

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

Topics

Food Writing First Hungry Because

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

God Children Day Mountains People

I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.

Me Real Estate Sick Care Seeing

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

John Lee Hooker

People You Choice Down Blues Radio

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

New York City New Nation Melting Pot

Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?

Woman Man Parents America Down Say

Dark comedy helped me survive.

Me Survive Comedy Dark Helped

Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.

Education Hands Become University

'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Live Music Myself Grow Long Play

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

Day Bad Day You Bad Sometimes Up

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

Clifford Irving

Trouble Committee Got Riot Plotting

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

Brigitte Nielsen

People Think Body Look Nice Because

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

People Human Forty Years Rights Who

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