Isabel Allende Quotes

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Joe Chung

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Time travel is such a magic concept.

Matt Smith

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I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

Angus Deaton

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I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

Jeff Kinney

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I've always wanted to work in comedy.

Amber Stevens

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I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

Steve Forbert

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I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

Spike Jonze

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I have a coach, but I'm not theater-trained or a technical actor.

Sibel Kekilli

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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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So many people apologize because they feel like they have to - that it's the appropriate thing to do, that it may help them down the road. But people can tell whether you're sincere.

Judy Smith

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I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.

Dominic Monaghan

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

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