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Helen Garner Quotes

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: November 7, 1942

Topics

Life People Me Calm Thinking Need

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Greed Stock Market Look Television

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Jesse Eisenberg

Life Mother People Thought Help Say

What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

American Fall Television I Can Say

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.

John Gordon Sinclair

Myself Think Want Actor See Got

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

Jenna Ushkowitz

King Broadway Started Nine

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

Matthew Desmond

Way Poor Harder Than Themselves

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Change Foreign Aid Function Affects

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

Hope I Am People Me Appreciate Way

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

Good Job People Mind Game Think

In Wichita, the district I represent, the 'Air Capital of the World,' general aviation is critical to the proper functioning of our airspace and is a key driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation.

Growth Innovation Job World Key Air

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

Tough Think Right Up May I May Not

There are some great songs - like, I really like 'Snowcone' and 'Whelk Then' and 'No Problem.' I think I'm dissatisfied that it's not written from start to finish; it's over a year's worth of work that doesn't correlate.

Work Great Start Think Problem Year

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