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Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Graduation Semester Lesbian

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

Change Time Thought Feel Go Roof

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Life People My Life Doing Poor Been

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Robert Kiyosaki

Work Live People Energy Long Wealth

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Funny Road You Be Prepared See Turn

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

Robert C. Merton

Age Job Finance College Thought

I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

Child Actor Who Wanted

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

Me Doors Artist Important Happens

Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.

Music School Game Go Scholarship

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

Me Night Someone Manager Meet Stage

Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.

Today Power Challenge Powerful Way

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

Freedom Parents Exercise Early Vote

Our youths are constantly trying to learn everything the West has to teach, but what is newest in the West has existed in China for thousands of years.

Learn Trying Teach Everything China

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