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Ursula Dubosarsky Quotes

What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

Ursula Dubosarsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1961

Topics

Words People Language Want Nervous

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

Life Me Writing Book Rest Thought

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

Children Commitment Creative Child

In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.

Time Ignore Tradition Question Email

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Anatoly Chubais

Economy Center Ideology Marxist

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

House Tent Rather Than

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Down Top Economy Out Middle Our

We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.

Children Society Country Want Kind

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

Opportunity Job People World Person

Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to an extent.

David Thibodeau

Work Mind Control Him See I See

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Shoes Myself Imagination I Can Go

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Service Believe Steps Greatest Many

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

Life Wisdom Experience People Think

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