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Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Ayelet Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I Am Motherhood Expectations Way Out

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

Jerry Orbach

New York Rich Think Choice New More

There are always people that are misbehaving.

Amy Klobuchar

People Always

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Stephen Ambrose

American Way Inferior Every African

Farm to table is a personal choice.

Tom Douglas

Farm Table Choice Personal

Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination.

Robert Zubrin

Fall Enemy Will Need Buy Domination

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Mickey Rivers

Wind Chill You First Out Up

I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will statistically perform best monetarily instead of going out to shows and having an opinion on which music is good or bad.

Lucy Dacus

Good Music Best People Opinion Bad

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Ludwig Quidde

War Real Danger Necessity Because

I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.

Debra Granik

Life Kindness Passion People Looking

Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.

Chris Gardner

Morning Passion Sleep Night You Go

Koresh believed that God had a plan that would go contrary to any human planning.

David Thibodeau

God Planning Plan Go Human Would

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

Teacher School I Am Space NASA Go