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Elinor Lipman Quotes

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Elinor Lipman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 16, 1950

Topics

Community School Team Basketball

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

John Zorn

Society Survive Will Always

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

Yourself World You Others Make

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

Happiness Confused Interesting Get

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Steve Jobs

Father Mother School Parents College

Progressive changed the industry when we introduced our Comparison Rater Experience and showed you auto rates of other companies next to our own - even if our rates weren't the lowest. That level of transparency was unprecedented.

Tricia Griffith

Experience You Transparency Next Own

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

Marv Levy

People Book Tough Down Place Want

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

Mo Udall

Winter Rich Ice You Understand Poor

The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?

Christopher McCulloch

Me Parent Kind Kid Him Always

I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.

Brigitte Nielsen

Hate Would Four Bullied Were

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Brooke Shields

Father Sad Stress Death Pain Me

The final battle of 'Eclipse' kind of blows the socks off everything we've seen earlier in the series, because you finally have wolves interacting with humans and vampires in a way that's really sophisticated visual effects that we're doing in it.

Wyck Godfrey

Wolves Battle Doing You Socks Kind

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

Polly Toynbee

Depression Pain People Anxiety Well