Isabel Allende Quotes

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLieChaosFirstWhateverOrder

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

Jimi Hendrix

PeopleDieYouLovingForgetSay

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

Joe Johnston

GreatLookingAmericaExerciseYou

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

John C. Reilly

LifeCharacterTruthTimeExperience

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

John Larroquette

LoveReadingEnoughFortunateBooks

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

Matthew Bourne

LifeMovingThoughtMouthFindOwn

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

Jean Paul Gaultier

LoveMyselfI AmTheatreFashion

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Amos Lee

HopeSoulPeopleMeFeelI Can

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

St. Jerome

DevilYouFindMayEngagedHe

Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

Tony Stewart

LifeDayOpinionTryingYouHappen

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

Rokia Traore

AttitudeMusicSingingProfessional

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

Lucy Walker

WorkTruthPeopleMeBetterTrying

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

Janna Levin

ScienceWritingInterestingAmbiguity

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