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Jan Karon Quotes

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Jan Karon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

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People Small Laugh Know Want Write

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

John Oates

Music People More Respond Honest

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.

Ann Leckie

Science Rest Library Short Healthy

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

Judi Dench

Mind Me Painting Loved Done Way

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Dolly Parton

Great People Piano Who Musician He

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

Dennis Farina

Change Style People Me Think My Own

No matter how bad or negative it gets, I somehow try to find the silver lining.

Diamond Dallas Page

Negative Bad Find Silver Matter Try

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

Clint Walker

Vacation Dirty Well Dozen Like

My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass during the sign of peace.

Anthea Butler

Memories Peace Me Hands White Away

I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart from all the slick packaged productions.

Phyllida Lloyd

Chaos Theatre Think Something Show

There is life after acting.

Suzanne Crough

Life Acting After

Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.

Peter Abrahams

Communism Socialism Problem Answers

I didn't enjoy 'Topographic Oceans' at all. It was a double album, and the truth is it was padded out, and I didn't like that. But I was a fan of Yes - still am - and as such, I'm entitled to say what I think.

Rick Wakeman

Truth Truth Is Think Enjoy Say Out