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Isabel Allende Quotes

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good People Interesting Common Sense

I think you have to kind of feel like you're pretty handsome and cool to be able to step into an audition for some kind of lead hero, and that's just not how I look.

Hero Step Cool Think Handsome Look

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.

Music Dance People Forward Think

The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

Science Ideas Research Nobody More

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

Moment I Am Loss Career Accept Will

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

History Me Back Hide Wall Page

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Friend Happiness God Looking Dear

It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.

Lizzie Armitstead

Women Important My Own Stage Own

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

God Honesty Beginning Liar Devil

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

Me Television Show Shocking

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

Live Health Climb Long Powerful Why

When I was 20 years old, I was living in Ireland, going to school in Cork. There was this girl in my film class that I was kind of flirting with. We had this notebook that we passed back and forth. We would write 10 questions and then pass it back while we were supposedly paying attention.

Girl School Questions Attention Back

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Disease Means Remedies Lot Suggested

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