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Margaret Atwood Quotes

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 18, 1939

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Good You Difference Up Something

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

Science Art Capital Artists Must

I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.

Jeph Loeb

Soul School Writing Los Angeles Know

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

Angie Harmon

Heart Day Hair Every Day Hug See

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Solon

Happy Be Happy Said Dead He Until

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Michael T. Flynn

Fear Country Principles Set Built

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Doug Liman

Home Romantic Me Nobody Believing

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.

Douglas Alexander

Battle Fighting Right Defend Begin

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Anthony Rapp

Grief Culture People Sadness Think

I will continue doing things irrespective of the medium as long as I'm excited about it.

Sushant Singh Rajput

Doing Long Will Things Excited

A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.

Peter Temple

Women Men People More Interested

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

Nikki Haley

Parents Me Proud Way I Was Raised

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Nikolai Gogol

Inspirational Sea Human Passions