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Naomi Alderman Quotes

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Faith People Sympathy Lose Now Up

All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.

Work Morning Great Day Night Name

Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints.

Know See Things Going Different

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Life Live Men Care End Long

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

Family Good Car Pain Small Brand

It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

Art Practice Space Child Thought Go

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

Change Man Me Stand You Example

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Miranda Cosgrove

Work Time Cool Start Wish Doing

Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere.

Family Beautiful People Mom Better

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

Clemantine Wamariya

Conflict Old Years Started Six

Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.

Say Others Conservative Moderate

If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.

Coffee You Way Talk Out Disagree

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Find Out Other Teens Lot

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