Isabel Allende Quotes

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

Angela Braly

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The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will help people read my books.

Michael Connelly

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My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.'

John Waters

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If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

Ana Navarro

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The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

Sid Caesar

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I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

LifeCityMeRememberWantBecome

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

Tommy Kirk

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I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Roger Andrew Taylor

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In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeTodayEyesPresentFindBecome

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

Michael Moore

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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Louise Fletcher

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