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Dani Shapiro Quotes

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 10, 1962

Topics

Beach Rose Desk Pieces Stones

I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

Andie MacDowell

Doing Enjoy Party Person Boring Way

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

Community College World View Need

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

Jef I. Richards

Truth Time Advertising Story Country

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Learn Know Something Really

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Stephen Malkmus

Police Story Others Gray Reason

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Better Now Evidence Historical Fact

Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit.

Time Born Lost New Kindergarten

I'm just obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' especially Arya Stark. And I love 'Orange is the New Black,' although I just want to inhale that all at once. I keep trying to stretch it out, but it's so hard.

Love Game Black Trying New Want

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

Michael O'Donoghue

Baby Comedy True Essence Hunt Seal

You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.

Win Inspire You Lift Minds Hearts

I don't remember that I ever really went all out to come up with a costume or a persona that could compete with everyone around me. I didn't know what to do. I found Halloween scary for just that fact - it meant that I had pressure to get up and be scary, makeup and all that. That was pretty horrifying for me.

Christopher Lloyd

Me Makeup Pressure Remember Know Up

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

Perfect Core Who Realized Taught

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