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Gail Parent Quotes

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1940

Topics

Mother Feel You Getting Old She Old

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

Family Wait Dinner Guitar Hands Out

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Car Me Back Chains Squad Legs

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Work Home I Am Want Stretch Get

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

Change Future Politics I Am People

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Work Spiritual Space Out Cannot Set

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

Performance Composition Been Songs

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

Michael Ignatieff

Book Toxic Only Tissue Felt Ever

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

Good Speak Better Stuff Accents

I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

I Am America Living London Casual

My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.

Father Children Down More Human Get

A global economy that is levering up, while unable to generate enough aggregate demand to achieve potential growth, is on a risky path.

Growth Path Potential Enough Achieve

Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong.

Money Gold Credit You Cards Wrong

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