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Fawn M. Brodie Quotes

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1915 - January 10, 1981

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Cooking Mountain Wall Up Breeze

I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

Smart Tired People Book Reading You

As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.

Technology Challenge Key New Way

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Stokely Carmichael

People Black White Country Rights

5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies.

Steve Mollenkopf

Car Impact Electricity Introduction

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

Voting Young More Over Democratic

I had it on my mind that I will fight in Cologne, because UFC is coming to Germany, where the biggest and largest Croatian community lives there. It was my big, big, big wish to participate. Even my doctor didn't believe I will make it, but I did.

Community Fight Mind Doctor Believe

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

Time Myself Job Process Trying Same

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Myself Happy People Amazing Think

When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are the songs I chose to sing as a cover band.

Church Band Out Urban Started Sing

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Never Reporter Humorist Pretended

A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.

Good Curious Expectations You Test

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Poetry Writing Interesting Write

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