Isabel Allende Quotes

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing - why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes?

Jens Martin Skibsted

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The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

Jenna McCarthy

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You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

John Katzman

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Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

Mauro Icardi

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Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

Matthew Heineman

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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Amy Bloom

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Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

Tom Stoppard

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All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck with me over the years but became even more important in practice once I became a mother. It may sound trite, but the concept of 'it takes a village' really could not be more true.

Julia Hartz

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Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin.

Jay Ryan

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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonas Salk

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To me, discomfort is a gift in the films that I'm making.

Derek Cianfrance

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