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Eula Biss Quotes

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Time Medical Little System Our Very

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.

Myself Chance Regret Feel Wish

It's silly - you go to a plastic chapel in Vegas, you get married in 10 minutes, and it takes you 10 years to get divorced.

Silly Vegas You Go Years Plastic

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

Shoshannah Stern

Family Communication I Am People Up

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

Life I Am Me My Life Hands Say

When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

Colin Kaepernick

Music Kind Bus Playing Off Still

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Live World Feeling Urgency

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

Life Fun Push You Know Kind

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

Me Birds Hollywood Hot Expression

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

Nature Past Thought Media You Now

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

Money School Parents Tough Clothes

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Saying Speak Down Immigrants Kind

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

Want Everything Headache Advance

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