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Grace Paley Quotes

If you want to do things, do things.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Want Things

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

Melanie Laurent

Work Girl Morning Beach Sleep Red

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

Michael Eric Dyson

Man Democracy You Down Say Garbage

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.

Experience Design Apple Understand

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

Angry I Am America You Back Kind

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Shadow Growing Up Growing Up Lived

As more girls get basic schooling, larger numbers will move up the educational ladder - some to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. That's important because workplaces around the world, especially in many developing and emerging-market countries, are becoming more automated, favouring workers with technical skills.

Technology Science Mathematics World

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

Queen Book Thought Lucky Everything

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Good Villain Believe Story Only

I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.

Mother Children Me Blessed Better

I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up.

Family Funny Love Stress School Me

I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.

Sorry Know Out Come Sooner Consumed

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

Band Out Solo Take Going Get

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