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Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

Terry Tempest Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1955

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Beautiful Art Writing Always Act

I just get such a connection from an audience. You play with them. I get mad at them. I yell at them. They yell at me. It's just fun.

Fun Me You Connection Mad Play

In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.

Home Day Effort Earth Successful

I am often invited to speak at colleges, and whenever I do Q and A's, a question that inevitably comes up is, 'How do you put up with the blogosphere?' It's a valid question, and I don't really know what answer to give. The truth is that I don't know what to do.

Truth I Am Speak Truth Is You Know

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

Life Good Me Free Think You

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

Maureen McCormick

Man World Ready Way Something Like

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

Success Best Sometimes Right Connect

So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.

Michael Chertoff

Money New York City Year You Look

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

Birthday Son Cake Grace Chocolate

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

Michael Strahan

Good Time Myself Me Motivation Feel

Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a macro-prudential approach to supervision and regulation needs to play the primary role.

Believe Financial Result Play Role

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Time Me Angel Help Kind Need

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Arthur Henderson

Community World Prosperity Nation Up

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