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Eleanor Porter Quotes

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 19, 1868 - May 21, 1920

Topics

Relationship Childhood Me Personal

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

You Looks Nobody Like Rwanda Tells

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

Jessie Matthews

Time Dance Perfect Numbers Play Big

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

Parents You Go Want Ask Anything

My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate.

School Parents Me Cool Deep Gender

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Think Design Mean Get Response

I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.

Chelsea Handler

Business Parents Me Giving House

In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.

Time Building Windows Three Living

There are a few moments in every game when I will have to sprint and use my explosiveness to win.

Win Game Moments Will Sprint Every

I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take me for a walk and then always dropped me to school. I was very disciplined, as my father inculcated those values in me. Now that my father is no more, I understand that you should not take your parents for granted.

Father Walk School Parents Me You

When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.

Think Loved You Look Back Go

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Money Meaning You Might Make

All my life, everything important that had ever happened had always happened somewhere else. But Sputnik was right there in front of my eyes in my backyard... I felt that if I stretched out enough, I could touch it.

Life Eyes My Life Enough Important

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