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Isabel Allende Quotes

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Soul Die My Soul Write Up Dry

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

Money Creativity Want Boundaries See

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Time Simple Child Writing Political

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational Heart World Tradition

There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young.

Children Weird Young Now Schools

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.'

Life Work Children Day Child Eye

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Red Speak Ignore Shy Him Guy

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

Think Voting Talk Whom Should About

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

Myself People Me Strong Think You

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Mary-Louise Parker

Myself Me Movies See Disappointed

You have a losing team, you change the coach.

Change Losing Team You Coach

I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?

Past Brother Parents Me Bridge Week

The Left discovered that its post-electoral strategy of constant confrontation was actually helping Felipe Calderon and his popularity instead of undermining it. So Marcelo Ebrard, the mayor of Mexico City, who's a very savvy politician, he changed course. He decided to actually govern instead of simply trying to bring the Calderon government down.

Government City Strategy Trying Down

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