Grace Paley Quotes

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

Grace Paley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007

Topics

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I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

John Cameron Mitchell

SchoolGrowing UpSmallEasyGayUp

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Jen Lancaster

CharacterWritingOpinionVoiceWay

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

Matthew Lesko

BelieveCareEnoughSellingKind

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Jean Piaget

KnowledgeSupportConstructionStrong

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

Stephanie Beacham

MyselfSunshineStupidEndBetter

I really love doing period pieces. I don't feel I've gotten a chance yet in my career to explore it as much as I'd like to. So I'll constantly look for opportunities to play in those worlds and hopefully be able to express those characters as well someday.

Stana Katic

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Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

Rosemary Mahoney

LifeMotherDayOne DayWithoutHer

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.

Michael Muller

SharksSurroundedBeingCloseBeen

Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.

Judi Dench

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I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

Devon Sawa

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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.

Christine Baranski

PeopleCrazyThinkTrueWildWell

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

Clayton M. Christensen

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