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Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes

As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.

Margot Lee Shetterly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Life Home College Place Leaving

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

John Harvey Kellogg

Death Mind Believe I Believe State

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

Andrew Sean Greer

Life Love Good Great Time Start

There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.

Meghan Daum

Women Writing Tradition Body Image

I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

Robert Klein

Funny Respect People Proud Earth Up

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

Daily Roads Armed Mere Occurrence

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

John Ruskin

Power Best Effort Try Within Our

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

Travis Scott

Fall Never Magician Like Could

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Robert Fitzgerald

Words Language Handsome Wish You

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Mickey Rourke

Mind Me Back Standing Guy Handle

I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.

Mika

Good Song Think You Down Matter

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

Michael Kelly

Politics People Crazy Think Want Up

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

Lou Gehrig

Good Yourself Think You Bad Admit