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Isabel Allende Quotes

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Myself Experience I Am Roots Find

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

Jill Lepore

Me Sister Face Always One Thing His

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

Tragedy Minute Thousand Played Farce

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Robert James Waller

Life Adversity Great Art Remember

'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

Michael J. Anderson

Own Things Where Favorite Ink Twin

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

Michael Bond

Believe Feet Stand Dancing Within

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

John Updike

Me Duty Fiction Sense Burdened

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Simone Weil

Power Evil Duty Necessity Even Felt

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Simone Weil

Hell Paradise Real Must Imaginary

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Roger Ross Williams

Relationship Important Director

If you're in a business where Latinos only play Indian maidens and what I call 'Conchita Lolita' parts - the little fiery spitfires - you do what you have to do.

Rita Moreno

Business You Play Little Call Where

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

Dennis Prager

Good God Faith Reason Existence

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

Gratitude Burden Off Made Every