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Rainbow Rowell Quotes

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1973

Topics

Life People My Life White Race Talk

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Robert Sheckley

Seriously Never Write Heroes Aware

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

Growth Direction Hurt Wish Listen

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

Humor Well Universally Does Farce

I believe my past is my strength.

Michel Martelly

Strength Past Believe I Believe

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

Respect You Important Overcome Your

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Parents Me Kitchen Impossible Think

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Life Growth Home Experience Child

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Life Passion More Fever Earthquake

I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we're on. We can't have any understanding of it, because we're not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Growth God Spiritual Understanding

I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

Music People Me World Look Race

My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Children Time Moment Decision Wife

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

America Long Striving Living Nation

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