Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeFaceThoughtI CanSometimesOwn

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Anna Freud

AlwaysEverythingKnownMuchHow

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

Anna Quindlen

BrainSundayNewsNewKnowListen

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

John Piper

GodI AmInfiniteWithoutOutHere

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

Robert De Niro

MotherWomanSchoolHusbandActing

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Lorraine Toussaint

LoveCharacterMeKnowBeing There

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

LL Cool J

ChangeI AmPeopleMindNameEnjoy

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Jonathan Swift

LoveHateManAnimalForthPeter

Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.

Dickey Betts

MusicTogetherThoughtsMakeupPlay

Me being the metal fan that I am, I like to listen to thrash metal to get me pumped - that kind of music will get your heart racing and ready for a crowd.

Christina Grimmie

MusicHeartI AmMeRacingReady

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

Connie Nielsen

GoodIdeasLanguageQuestionsYou

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

Brad Henry

WorkFaithBelieve In YourselfRest

You have the most fun, and love is best, when it's just wrong enough to feel good.

Ashley McBryde

LoveGoodBestFunLove IsEnough

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