Helen Dunmore Quotes

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

Helen Dunmore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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ChildrenMeSisterLookingBlack

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

EducationGreatOpportunitiesChicago

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

John Moody

RailroadMoreTwoLineCompeteMay

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Matthew Fox

TrustThinkProcessYouFindKnow

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

Sophie Winkleman

WritingEnjoyTryConcentrateReally

Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.

Steve Mnuchin

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I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Robert B. Parker

IdeasLongDownKnowWillWrite

I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Robyn Davidson

MyselfPeopleThinkSeeThings

We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

Julia Cameron

FaithGreatSmallDestinyBelieve

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

Juan Williams

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Don't eat the bar nuts.

Jon Taffer

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For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I don't live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics'.

Diana Gabaldon

LoveLivePoliticsPeopleSaying

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

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