Herta Muller Quotes

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

Herta Muller

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: August 17, 1953

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Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.

Stacy Keibler

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Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.

Tucker Carlson

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I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Tony Kushner

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When you're on a roll, you want to stay busy - you want to keep that momentum going.

Robbie Lawler

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I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.

Jean Chatzky

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We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.

Joshua Foer

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It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.

Doug Flutie

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The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?

Christopher McCulloch

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When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Christa McAuliffe

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I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They're very vulnerable. They're very open, like clowns.

Colman Domingo

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My skin gets so dry and chapped, and the second I get off the plane, I apply so much sunscreen.

Aurora

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