Isabel Allende Quotes

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

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I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

Maya Beiser

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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Anil Kapoor

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I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

Jeff Bridges

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I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

John Tiffany

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However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

John Polkinghorne

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When I was a freshman and sophomore, I got booed every time I was put in the game. Then, in my junior and senior years, my dad got booed every time he took me out.

Steve Alford

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Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible... But you have to blog what's interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks.

Rosanna Pansino

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I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.

Robert Wilkie

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Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

Rufus Sewell

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Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Lou Reed

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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Dorothea Lange

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