Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973

Topics

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Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Angelina Jolie

HistoryMeHomeworkDownSayOkay

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.

Sophie Kinsella

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I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

Mary Decker

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Djimon Hounsou

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I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

Debra Winger

LifeTimePeopleMy LifeActing

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Christopher Walken

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I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Christopher Walken

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I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

Bob Iger

StartedOffWantingMuchVery

I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'

Bronte Campbell

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I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.

Brian Tyree Henry

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I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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