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Pat Conroy Quotes

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

Topics

Change Father Childhood Parents Fact

Some days, I do feel that pressure of, 'What do I mean as a black woman? What am I representing?' It honestly just gives me anxiety.

Jessica Williams

Woman Me Black Pressure Anxiety

I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.

You Look Head Wear Like Toe

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

Change Lawyer Learn You Never Over

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Queen Feel Drag I Feel Like Like

Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

Girl Job Travel People Mind Speak

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Life Chance Die You Know Things

My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Me Roots Values Chicago Instilled

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

Wood Stream Seen Mall Knew Strip

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

Support Tomorrow River Think Will

In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.

Deanna Raybourn

Character Travel Direction You Find

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

Mom Know Grandfather Side Who Much

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Clarence Thomas

Brother Grandparents Out Jogging He

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