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Helen Dunmore Quotes

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Feel Know Whom Concentrate Reader

I felt a little anxious/nervous representing a real person in a Spike Lee film.

John David Washington

Person Real Little Film Real Person

I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.

Matthew Desmond

Me Democracy Rich America Poverty

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Music Poetry People Me Self Comedy

You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.

You Know Falling Out Us Just

For podcasters, people are just being themselves in a public fashion. So when someone is attacking a podcast, they're really attacking the person, because the person is the podcast. So I think that's why podcasters take it to heart. It's a very personal form of media, probably the most personal form of media.

Heart People Fashion Think Media

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

Father Saying Know Difficult Slowly

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Knowledge Literature Chess His Bobby

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Winter Wisdom Happy People Summer

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

Eyes Key Name Play First Moody

Being your best can only enhance your personal performance.

Best Performance Personal Being Your

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

Richard Flanagan

Mother Plumber Hoped

I haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future.

Work Future Enjoy Done More Much

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