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Naomi Alderman Quotes

I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Age Words Ideas World Bible Reading

Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.

Joe R. Lansdale

Humor Me Horror Mixing Taught About

People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.

Music People Me Mom Rock Way

There's a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people - when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.

Anjelah Johnson

Myself Fun People Tears Become Joke

The business community is very comfortable with Romney.

John T. Chambers

Business Community Comfortable Very

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

Good World Oyster Gulf Tastes

Michelle Williams

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Compassion Childhood Parents People

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.

People Think Better Feel Movies

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

Good God You Bad Choice Say

You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.

Love Parents Key You Knowing Kid

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Work Love Money Personality Politics

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

Out Five Like Minutes Proportion

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