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Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973

Topics

Red Writing Black Facts Fiction Ink

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.

Robert Powell

Networking Holiday Privacy Genuine

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

John Lanchester

Nature Law Economics Political Even

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

Robert Griffin III

Life Time Football Step You Body

We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree.

Robert Irwin

People World Degree Aware Argue

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

Alveda King

Leader Show Himself

Both my mother's younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.

Shraddha Kapoor

Mother I Am Silly Strange Childish

If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.

Rose McGowan

Character Money People Me Better

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Michelle Obama

Honesty Job Universe Transition Know

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Michael Sims

Love Gossip Hunting Antique Half

I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'

Louis Theroux

Live People Thinking You I Can Why

My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.

Julia Lipnitskaya

Life Mother Job City Me Nothing

The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

Jonathan Haidt

Day Start Choices Grow Environment