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Tara Westover Quotes

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

Tara Westover

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1986

Topics

Mother Looking Long Go She Whatever

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

John Philip Sousa

American Judge Shadows Lights Over

My only interest is in sharing great music with more and more people.

Simon Rattle

Music Great People Sharing More

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.

Diana Gabaldon

Today Time Think View Someone Doing

We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.

Dee Rees

People Black Be Different You Down

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

Debbie Allen

Style Man Child Think Remember Back

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

Christo

Simple Detail You Early Now Project

I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.

Bonnie Hunt

Appreciate Everyday Far Stuff Really

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

Bob Costas

Opinion Wish Accusation Said Never

I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

Anthony Marra

Politics Days Left Sign Barack Obama

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

Pico Iyer

Wish Newspaper Sight See Hiding Our

Exercise tells your cells that you are alive. All bodies need oxygenation.

Suzanne Somers

Exercise You Alive Need Cells Your

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Music Myself Walk I Can Talk Beat