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Margaret Atwood Quotes

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Science Brother Literature Way

It's a real gift to work with my sister. We obviously have such a shorthand communicating with each other that it makes the process easier. And from growing up together and watching so many films together, we ended up with pretty similar taste.

Work Together Sister Growing Up Gift

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

Money Doing Summer Go Teachers Earn

As you know, I'm all about victory for the underdog.

Victory Underdog You Know About

I feel like I'm good enough to defend anybody.

Good Feel Enough Defend I Feel Like

A lot of the TV shows, they do long hours, and they do a lot of days, and you don't get a lot of time. But the good thing is, if you get one that's made in L.A., or made in a place you want to be, you get to go home every night.

Good Home Time Night Long You

Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.

Women Time Art Money Men Filmmaking

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

Jonny Lee Miller

I Am People Up Being Scotland Am

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

Father Mother Great Architecture She

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Work Day People Night Week Stage

I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.

Teacher Song Start Voice Hide New

You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.

Christopher Walken

People Me Interesting You Television

Reflection makes men cowards.

William Hazlitt

Reflection Men Cowards Makes

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