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Helen Keller Quotes

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968

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People Think Reach Always Pleasant

Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.

Girl Hate Writing Push You Cookies

There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energy away from me. It was always in the back of my mind that I had to do it, and I couldn't count on anybody. There was no one around to pay for me to get through life.

Life Mind Me Energy Parent Back

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

I Am Me Celebrate Think Matters

But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did.

You Way Sales Cannot Either Did

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Shirley Williams

Education You Where Like Supermarket

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

Shy Pretty Outgoing Too

People do eventually see something that's quality.

Quality People See Something

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

Live Parents Doctor Night Saturday

I don't think it could ever be possible to enjoy a job more than 'The Office.'

Job Think Enjoy Possible Office

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Dorothy Allison

Family Women Vision Me Think

When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.

Clay Matthews III

Up Middle Lot Lined

I write all my own songs. Everything I did on 'The X Factor' was basically original, except for some of the live shows. Everything I did was original, and I wrote it from the heart.

Live Heart My Own Write Everything

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