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Ella Maillart Quotes

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: swiss
Birth: February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997

Topics

Children Parents Feel House Earth

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Truth Unique Fiction Role Worthwhile

Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.

Good Women Myself Man Better Look

I believe in prayer. I pray every night.

Prayer Night Believe I Believe Pray

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Life Heart Man Bread Here Which

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Birthday Me Pressure Remember I Can

I am on the side of the people.

I Am People Side Am

It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.

You Know Hard Out Something Roll

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

Age People Free Information Earth

Once I tried to find myself as a musician and a composer, I went back and saw that there was something special about Puerto Rican music. I knew that before, but had never sat down and thought about it. The more I learned about it, the more it found its way into the music I was writing.

Music Myself Writing Thought Down

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

Forward You Look Nice Open Tidy

When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

Saying You Sound Write Everyone Act

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

Freedom Courage Creative Fun People

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