Isabel Allende Quotes

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

John Banville

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We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

John Boehner

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To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Robert M. Hutchins

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The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!

Tom Rachman

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To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was elected to Congress to fight for those big ideas, not nibble around the edges of a broken and destructive system. The FairTax would be a real stimulus for economic growth, and it wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime.

Rob Woodall

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Getting into the voice-over booth, there are no cameras and no inhibitions.

Roddy Piper

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We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

Judith Wright

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If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Brian Eno

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I had wrestling in my blood.

Bret Hart

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Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

Brian Stableford

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The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up. Human rights activists, including women and senior citizens, have been beaten by police. Judges have been arrested and lawyers battered in their offices and the streets.

Asma Jahangir

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When I get home, I clean out the garage and play ball with my son. That's it.

William Fichtner

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