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Pat Conroy Quotes

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Family Risks Group Ground Vessel

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

Love Mind Me World Think You

Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.

Father Son Never Old Everything Up

Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.

Investing Us Common Model Partners

Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.

Learning Brain Long Circus First

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Michael Parkinson

Man Talk Forty Years Been Odd

To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.

Writing Book Short Long See Romance

There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?

Think You Why Rule Show Other

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Time Me Moon Silly You Far Away

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Education Live Children Health Food

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Philip Baker Hall

Life Live Time School High School

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.

Money You Debt Printing Dollar Give

The power of podcasting is pretty remarkable. It is such an amazing way to mobilize fans. It's almost like they're part of your family. They probably listen to you more than they listen to their own families. I know that's true for me. So there is a real bond there.

Family Power Amazing Me Bond You

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