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Naomi Alderman Quotes

Too many keep-fit ideas are designed for those who are already fit, and they're just no fun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

Fun Ideas Just Fit Who Many

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

Life People Me Window Writing Loved

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

Business Happy Think Acting Skill

I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.

Andie MacDowell

Live World Rest Poverty Traveled

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

Robert Stromberg

Love Budget Doing Seeing Movies Kid

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Heart Experience Medical I Am Doctor

All I have are my instincts. They've never failed me.

Angela Ahrendts

Me Never Instincts Failed

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Jonathan Carroll

Someone Furniture Why Boston Head

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

Political America Table Same Working

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

Humor Politics Anything Something

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

America Understand Angels Us Well

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Women Creativity Men Intelligence

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Great Soul Pain Mind Moral Nervous

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