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Jake Halpern Quotes

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1975

Topics

Feel Poverty Way Write Difficult

I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.

Life Future Finding Place Way Out

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Family Friends You Secrets Forge

I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see me as the person who can give voice to what they're feeling.

People Me Frustration Voice Think

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

Stephen Gardiner

Influence Country Crisis Outcome Had

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

Life People Trying Away Get Most

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Leadership Day Job World Lost Never

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Action Strong Weak Successful Either

I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'

Find Say Old Hard Get

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

Book Talking Sex Write Next Ruins

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

Place London Sense Poets About Sang

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

Deborah Moggach

People Want Punishment Take Tragic

Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Memory Powerful Writer Thing

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