Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: December 11, 1964

Topics

ChildrenHateDaySchoolKitchen

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

Jeff Lemire

LifeWorkFocusedRealReal Life

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

Skeet Ulrich

HardAmbiguityDealHard ThingThing

'Children of Blood and Bone' is basically 'Black Panther' with magic.

Tomi Adeyemi

ChildrenBlackMagicBloodBone

When Americans support using our military abroad, they want to see a clear plan. They want to know what they need to do and when - and policymakers want to know that there's broad public support for the effort.

Ron DeSantis

EffortSupportPlanKnowWantNeed

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Russell Smith

FutureBookTelevisionArgumentKnow

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

Louise L. Hay

LifeTimeSpiritualSpaceLearn

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

Lloyd Kaufman

MoneyMagicWayDigitalDocumentary

I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.

Joy Fielding

MindMeSayNeedAlwaysSecond

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Joseph Epstein

ActionKnowWhereIdeal

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

AgeFallTalkSamePatternsKids

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

Psy

FamilyFatherBusinessSonTradition

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

Suzanne Collins

FightingYoungYearsStageDagger

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