Helen Dunmore Quotes

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

Helen Dunmore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 12, 1952 - June 5, 2017

Topics

HopeDoorBookFaceDeepLandscape

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Jill Lepore

MotherHomeMeScaryAlwaysThings

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Robert Orben

WritingComedyKnowAheadSecret

If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

Angelina Jolie

PositiveTimeWomanMeSmallWay

President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.

Mike Quigley

ImmigrantsCreatingPresidentNation

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!

Joyce Meyer

LifeGodGreatFocusYourselfDoing

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

Dinesh D'Souza

EffortDemocracyAmericanSomewhere

We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

Debbie Stabenow

PeopleNowCostMoveWhoHear

I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.

Chrissy Metz

LiveGodMoneyCreditDebtNever

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Colleen McCullough

SpeechLookKnowWantHeightLike

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Annie Baker

MorningGodWake UpThank GodYear

I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.

Playboi Carti

OpportunityMeFeelSomeoneYou

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.

Shawn Johnson

SmallFeelYoungAlwaysLike

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