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Edward Rutherfurd Quotes

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.

Edward Rutherfurd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1948

Topics

Family Father River America Interior

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

Jimmy Smits

You Artist Celebrity Whole Different

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

John Buchan

Men True Snob Who Rather Than

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

Joel Salatin

You Joke Taste Whatever Pigs Sauce

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Anna Freud

Joy You Earth Only Who Were

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

Amy Jo Martin

Social Media People Media Television

I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.

Robert Zemeckis

Work Know Own Filmmaker Who Any

People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.

Debra Granik

Eye Easy Look Go Without Discourse

I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever.

Colin Firth

Age Me Sex Choice I Can Wrong

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Mother Me Husband Criticism Friends

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Work Future Knowledge People Society

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Money People Think Thinking Everyday

My mom is a history teacher, so we'd go on all these historic trips as kids around Halloween, because it was kind of creepy.

Sharon Van Etten

Teacher History Mom Go Kind Kids