Francesca Lia Block Quotes

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

Francesca Lia Block

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 3, 1962

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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

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Cary Benjamin sleeps dreamily on my stomach as we're both bonding and recuperating. He's phenomenal.

Jennifer Grant

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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Anna Quindlen

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A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.

John Shelby Spong

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As great as you believe your new product or company is, the world got along just fine without you. The greatest competition every startup faces is convincing consumers that there is a better solution to the problems that vex them.

Jay Samit

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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Christopher Lasch

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I set goals, and I like to reach them and accomplish new things.

CM Punk

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I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.

Brody Jenner

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'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And while that was truly harder than anything I've ever done, I was grateful every day to be going to work on such an incredible play, with such a generous, intelligent, supportive group of people.

Annie Parisse

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I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

Alicia Silverstone

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Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

Seamus Heaney

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It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Richard Linklater

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