Kathryn Harrison Quotes

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

Kathryn Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1961

Topics

DeterminationPowerLooksObjectHis

I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

Matthew Williamson

DesignRememberLongI CanInterior

I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am fascinated by the look they can have - simple details such as a step, a way of speaking, a gesture, a way of wearing a garment.

Jeanne Damas

MotherWomenPersonalitySimpleStep

I'm accustomed to pressure. It's what we, as players, live. If you don't want pressure, then football is not for you.

Roberto Firmino

LiveFootballPressureYouWant

For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.

Mona Eltahawy

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I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.

Dennis Washington

LifeLovePassionAnythingBoats

Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty.

Drea De Matteo

BeautyAnimalsSufferSake

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Dorothy Fields

GoodSongCareBackWillAudience

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

Donald Miller

ReadingBoringWriteFirstRight

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Christine Lagarde

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I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

Chris Pratt

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I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

Claire Danes

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I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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