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Naomi Alderman Quotes

You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Work Hope Learn Doing You Down

I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

Joy Me Wind Seed Cry Wild

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

Nature Myself Evil Succeed Say True

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Walls People World Church Want Get

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

Night Feel Down Settle Talk Show

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

Respect Great People Nothing Cynical

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

You Sometimes Your Fill Gotta

More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.

People Poor More Right Where Who

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Money Vegas Act Make How

Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.

Ego Seriously Why Hard Up Changing

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

Change Art Change The World World

The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.

Colson Whitehead

School High School Rock High Text

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Music History Person First Whole

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