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Naomi Alderman Quotes

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Library London Old First Two Years

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Family Morning Wolves Thinking Wolf

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud.

Jennette McCurdy

Words People Speak Say They Say

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

Me Start Train Throw Like Your

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Improvement Trouble Virtue Act Very

If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

Good Lion Good Times Attention You

I obsess too much.

Meredith Brooks

Too Much Much Too Obsess

We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.

John T. Chambers

Today Know Skills Veterans Workforce

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

Stuart Rothenberg

Think Embrace President Him Than

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

Life Live Character Think Inevitable

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.

Good Football Together Religion Team

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

People Me Black Enough You Go

Not being white has never prevented me from enjoying Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. These are heroes of mine.

Me White Never Heroes Solo Mine

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