Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

Karen Joy Fowler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 7, 1950

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I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.

Melissa Marr

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There's a lot of buzz words in the business world these days - Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership - and at the heart of every one of these concepts is the ability for people to make small moves forward, learn, iterate.

Mel Robbins

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People make mistakes, and either you fall from your mistakes, or you learn from them.

Matt Hardy

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When you have Khiladi Kumar on one side and Thalaiva on the other, you have to know your stuff well.

Amy Jackson

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I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

Steve Kerr

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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Stendhal

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I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want.

Mischa Barton

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People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

Milla Jovovich

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I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

Lou Brock

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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Djimon Hounsou

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