Herta Muller Quotes

It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books.

Herta Muller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherSchoolCityMeHigh School

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

Viola Davis

CharacterDreamPlayJustAble

I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

Jennifer Nettles

WomenThinkEasyLookEverything

Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

John Hurt

I AmMeActorThingsHireDifferent

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Merton Miller

FinanceYouInformationSeriousBeat

My goal is the same as it has always been - to stand up for myself and take back my voice after being bullied and intimidated by President Trump and his minions.

Stormy Daniels

MyselfStand UpVoiceStandGoalUp

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Simon Beaufoy

ExperienceYouPerfectLivingReal

I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers - doesn't matter if its something my wife hates.

Ron White

WifeI CanNewMatterWriteJoke

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Lisa Guerrero

FootballMeFanHeRaisedHuge

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

Jordan Knight

GoodThinkEnoughLongYouBad

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Delta Goodrem

PeopleMeSongBornTrySome People

It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

Donald Hall

RoadGenerationSometimesLiving

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

Bruce Cockburn

RememberLivingAbsurdIdeaSeemed

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