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Alan Garner Quotes

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 17, 1934

Topics

Attitude Age Child Book Think Want

It's easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.

Challenge Motivation Easy You Right

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Jennifer Granholm

Alone Government Small Hands Will

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

Social Media Step People Start Media

If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share.

Stephanie Coontz

Work Hard Work Change Today People

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Love Something Would Record Alison

Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could've pushed it, too, but it wouldn't have happened any sooner. I'm lucky. What's happened has happened in spite of me.

Dreams Me Lucky Star Sure Happened

We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

Mistakes Mistake World Think Better

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

People American Priorities Values

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life Live Experience Death Present

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

Writing Always One Thing Wanted Case

I was about 7 and my family was eating at a restaurant when we saw my first Elvis impersonator by total accident.

Family Eating Restaurant First Saw

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Chelsea Clinton

History Living Always Aware Deeply

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