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Margaret Atwood Quotes

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Believe Literature Student I Believe

Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

Andie MacDowell

Walk Body Way Pregnancy Changed

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Jeffrey Kluger

Sibling You Dark Mentoring Skills

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

God Thank God Lived Prayers Been

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

Tom Stoppard

Interesting Easy You Say Director

Those of you that think filming is all glamour, you're so wrong! Really, only the premieres are the glitzy bits.

Tom Felton

Think You Wrong Glamour Only Those

I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Ruth Negga

Life Live Start Potential Mean Off

Roads are not practical in Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

Roads Africa Practical

I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.

Home Tools Little Favorite Mic Use

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

Lloyd Bridges

Work Believe Fake Feel You Know

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

Lola Kirke

Famous Feel Comfortable Kid Older

I don't start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It's not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I'll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would.

Jason Isbell

Character Experience Song Start Go

I'm surprised how many commercials and sitcoms and movies have a need for, 'We just need something to come by the camera that's really weird.' They call Doug Jones.

Doug Jones

Weird Camera Movies Need Something