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Sarah Hall Quotes

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Story Short Clear Short Story Judged

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

Father Children Time Man School

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Child Theatre You Why Teachers Your

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Culture Now Shame Overcome Mexican

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women Door Limits End Goal Things

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

Mary Harris Jones

Children Sewing Little Preferred

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

Failure Government Energy Winners

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

Love Best Care Someone You Want

As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.

Want Because Get Exciting Again Had

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Husband Plan Born Party Three Been

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

Christian McKay

Hope Great Come Quite Roles Few

When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.

Colleen Ballinger

Music Myself Training People College

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

Music Everyone Industry How Learned

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