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Rebecca Makkai Quotes

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1978

Topics

Mother Myself Book Three Letters

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Life Education Learning Moment Book

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

Andie MacDowell

Life Heart Mom Celebrate Think Help

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

Grow Dignity Way Old Still

When I was on 'Doubt' on CBS, there was a 60-second scene, but in that 60 seconds, people were so affected because it was trans women in a very normalized situation.

Women People Doubt Situation Because

Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to.

Good Home Car Mind Listening Lose

I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions - including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment.

Time Energy Environment Problem

There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.

Win Motivation Golf You Always Up

For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Age I Am Me Someone Back Person

I can't even kill a lobster without saying a Hail Mary for it.

Saying Without Lobster Even Mary

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.

Faith Vision You Say Actor Director

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

I Am Interesting Matter Everything

Such as we are made of, such we be.

William Shakespeare

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