Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 25, 1937

Topics

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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Jesse Jackson

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Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Andrew Vachss

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Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

Robert Glasper

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Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Stephen Chow

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Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

Rutina Wesley

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Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.

Mike Lookinland

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Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.

Mini Grey

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I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'

Lisa Murkowski

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I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.

Jasper Carrott

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National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

Douglas Tompkins

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In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.

Christopher Lloyd

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I went to a football game, and people were shouting my dad's name, and I was like, 'What? Oh my God.'

Brooklyn Beckham

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