Ayelet Waldman Quotes

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenSucceedChanceTigerOthers

Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.

Jim Crace

TimeWiseLongKnowLong TimeWill

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Jody Williams

HomeControlGoSoldiersOutGuns

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

Jeffrey Toobin

InterestingYouNewsKnowImportant

Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.

Meg Rosoff

ExperienceThinkDarkDownGoWay

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

Jeff Baena

ConsistencyBrandComedyFinding

I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.

Summer Sanders

HistoryBrotherTeamSwimmingRest

People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'

Robbie Robertson

PeopleThinkNobodySaidDoneBand

Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me.

RuPaul

MeYouKnowBecomeNeverMean

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

Dee Snider

PeopleSellSingRecordsNowadays

I think I've just been able to stay balanced, and my family has helped me through that. And with that, I just can continue to develop because I work hard every day.

Christian Pulisic

WorkFamilyDayMeWork HardThink

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

Asa Larsson

WorkHard WorkWritingYouPossible

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Arthur Miller

ExperienceProblemYouPersonReal

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