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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Reading Early Connected Read

I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

Skiing Feel You Look Down Jump

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

World Reading Look News See Around

Everyone has a right to say what they want, but what they have to say doesn't interest me.

Me Say Want Right Everyone Interest

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

John Ratzenberger

Good Words People Why Reason Over

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

Being Artists Bohemian Around Types

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

Saying Wrong Way Scared May Get

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

Basketball Clothes Trying Gym Know

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Lorraine Toussaint

Life Think My Life Doing Somewhere

One thing I learned from my old man is that people are going to be happy for you, but not too happy. When the tables are turned and you're hanging out on top with a guy like Randy Orton, who is in the main event at Wrestlemania, not all the guys are going to like you.

Man Happy People Be Happy You Top

As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.

Blessing Habit People Wait Loved

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

Whatever Big Going Knew Did

If Russia has the influence in Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. We need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. How many more children have to die before Russia cares?

Children Influence End Die Need See

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