Rachel Johnson Quotes

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

Rachel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 3, 1965

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DaughterSmokeKnowNeedReason

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

Mayer Hawthorne

CharacterMeI CanOutLittleBeat

Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.

John Lanchester

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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

An Wang

MadHimUsMustRunningMadman

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

Sia

I AmMeBagI CanDoneWant

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

Tom Waits

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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Robert Browning

TimeTogetherLovedPlaceNever

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

Molly Antopol

FunnyCharacterMeWritingThink

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

Mindy Kaling

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From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Joseph Rotblat

PassionScienceDaysHadEarliest

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Dick Van Patten

NeverOutHereGoingComeJust

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

Corey Hawkins

MyselfSurpriseFansLikeToo

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

Clint Smith

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