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Frances Mayes Quotes

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1940

Topics

Reading Name Dare Breathe Started

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

Women Bird Old Dragon Stereotype

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Past Think You Done Why Write

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

Religion Gender Way Race Never

I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

Matthew Macfadyen

Myself Sick End Feel Doing You

You may think having a cluttered desk isn't that big of a deal. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Disorganization can stunt your professional growth and decrease your productivity.

Growth Truth Think You Professional

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

Amitabh Bachchan

Social Media I Am Writing Book Media

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

People Survive Wrong Need Working

Stay true to your integrity, and if you're doing something that you feel like doesn't represent your integrity, speak up. You have to say that. If you're doing something that doesn't make you feel good, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

Good Integrity Feel Good Speak Doing

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

Kindness Children Name Never Forget

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.

Time Me Legal Information Privacy

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Miyamoto Musashi

Win You Enemy Timing Knowing Expect

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

Saying You Will Become Position

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