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N. Scott Momaday Quotes

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

N. Scott Momaday

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1934

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Father Art Child Me Said Never

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

You Country Land Own Your Foreign

I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.

Good Time Fun People Think Say

The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

Music Best Care You Will Kid

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

Her Herself Cautious Made About

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Woman I Am Human First Right Above

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Work Love Change Character Year You

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

Change Happy Think Trying Body Way

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Death Talking Traveled Discouraged

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

Christopher Fowler

Father Man Problem Drama Christmas

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Age Fall Talk Same Patterns Kids

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

Health Reflection World Environment

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

Business Respect I Am Value Friends

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