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Tara Westover Quotes

I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.

Tara Westover

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1986

Topics

Government Birth Old Years Exist

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

Joe R. Lansdale

Best Single Some Novel Characters

I'm completely allergic to being politically correct.

Joanne Liu

Being Allergic Politically Correct

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Joe Biden

Funny Used Everybody Thinks Really

If you want something badly enough, and decide that you will get it, you will.

Jen Sincero

Enough You Want Will Decide Get

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Jennie Finch

Moment Balance Think Being I Think

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Anna Quindlen

Life Yourself Parents You Choose

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

Smokey Robinson

Myself Writing Songs Originally

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

Live People Know Never Real Be Real

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Mary Douglas

Disappointment Promises Expectations

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Diane Abbott

Look Village London Outsider Sense

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Annie Lennox

Change Sometimes Things Get Baffled

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Alfred Rosenberg

Education Value Step Church Germanic