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Isabel Allende Quotes

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family People Me Think Person Would

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

Nature Me Woods Way Never Seem

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Matthew Hale

Small Reputation Tongue You Praise

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

Michael Dirda

Learning Communication World Language

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

John Wesley Powell

Prayer Dance Years Flood Come

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

Sloane Crosley

Myself Think Know Being Memoir Just

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

Man Secret Open Side Actions Most

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Chita Rivera

Feel You Back Fabulous Audience Up

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

Colleen Haskell

Opportunity Great Job Planning Wish

I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Willie Nelson

Family Friends And Family Friends Lot

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

Pilou Asbaek

Think Interesting Kind Complex Some

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

Prince Andrew

Culture American Years Our TV Shows

People put too much emphasis on looks.

Shawn Johnson

People Looks Too Much Much Emphasis