Alice Munro
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES JOSS WHEDON GUNTER GRASS I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place... HOZIER I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not b... MALORIE BLACKMAN JOE WRIGHT RAY BRADBURY Happy endings? The only ending life allows us is death, and that’s rarely happy. So, until my happ... STEPHEN MOSLEY I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I wou... MIRIAM TOEWS A long screed about my experience, endings, I don't like them, no such thing. Not in my book. See I ... MARLENE M. CHAVEZ LANGSTON HUGHES I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w... MICHAEL LEARNED I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it... JON FAVREAU LEMONY SNICKET EMMA STONE JASPER CARROTT EDWARD ABBEY In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely un... ZOEY DEUTCH BILL BRYSON I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literal... ZACHARY KNIGHTON KAREN JOY FOWLER BENJAMIN WATSON HENRY BESSEMER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING MAGGIE STIEFVATER JOE WRIGHT DARREN CRISS But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD STEPHEN KING JOHN LE CARRE SHEL SILVERSTEIN I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That's what I did. I was the... ALLISON TOLMAN I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so... MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE I like happy endings. HARMON KILLEBREW Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early day... GARTH DAVIS DEMI LOVATO I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't af... KERRY STOKES I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, b... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this... SUSAN CHOI I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, ... DARIO ARGENTO MINDY KALING I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I CARROLL SHELBY I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and ... MAKO AVRIL LAVIGNE ANNE HATHAWAY In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine... ALISON WEIR GEORGE CLOONEY LISA KLEYPAS WOLE SOYINKA My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy. SAUL LEITER CHRISTIE BRINKLEY A person who never made a mistake, never made anything." ~Rosamund Pilcher, Endings and Beginnings ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my siste... BEN SIMMONS BRIGITTE BARDOT SARAH ADDISON ALLEN JERRY REINSDORF DANIEL TAMMET TYLER PERRY I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES DAISY RIDLEY ERNST MAYR One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure ... BILL VIOLA EMILY BRONTë MIRANDA HART So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how... GEORGE J. MITCHELL True stories seldom have endings.FRANCES HARDINGE I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terrib... REBECCA MAKKAI What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in... KATE BUSH I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru... ELIZA COUPE I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry p... LANA WOOD IAN ANDERSON ANGELINA JOLIE We made the diagnosis and the farmer went home with vaccines for his flock. So I like to think we di... CORRIE BROWN SHARON STONE EVELYN GLENNIE And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in H... UMBERTO GUIDONI , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? ... RACHEL SKLAR I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film F... KAYA SCODELARIO PETE TOWNSHEND Because I did not understand the difference between meaning and happiness, I did not appreciate that... JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in s... STEVEN BLUM I was very pleased. I wasn't really expecting anything when I went in. I was just hoping for the bes... KATIE CUTRELL DAVID ROCKEFELLER Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are ... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my... FRANKIE VALLI ALANA STEWART ALICE MUNRO PATRICK O'BRIAN On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Lo... VALERIE AZLYNN SOULJA BOY I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did w... JENNIFER SKY Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn'... BALTASAR GRACIAN I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I... FRANCES O'CONNOR CHARLIZE THERON During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my... NORAH JONES 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a... ZACHARY KNIGHTON
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ADAM MUNRO It's good to play well and get the result you want. The two points are the biggest thing. ADAM MUNRO Bad goals to give up, the first and third. I've got to be better than that. Trent did the right thin... ADAM MUNRO I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner, and obviously it didn't go far enough. It w... ADAM MUNRO I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner and obviously it didn't go far enough. It wa... ADAM MUNRO You feel like you should get two points in a game like that. (The winning goal) hit my stick. I trie... ADAM MUNRO He's been a big help. He changed my style to make me more in control. Before I was more reacting and... ADAM MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a... ADAM MUNRO Losing is a part of winning. DICK MUNRO BARRY MUNRO BARRY MUNRO I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.CHARLOTTE MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a... ADAM MUNRO These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In ... ALAN MUNRO Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really... JESS MUNRO For me this place is absolutely sacred, it is absolutely special, JIM MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a... ADAM MUNRO Nobody works in the mine unless they have virtually no other option. ROBIN MUNRO She didn't jump as well as we hoped she would. She's doing it part time and jumping takes so much ti... BILL MUNRO I think she felt really good with it. BILL MUNRO Many of the British groups marched (into battle) with pipes. BILL MUNRO That's unbelievable. After the preliminaries, we had to adjust to not using starting blocks. I guess... BILL MUNRO Just look around here. There are a lot of families here. BILL MUNRO I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn... CHARLOTTE MUNRO She stayed down real well on the hurdles and her form was really good. She was really focused becaus... BILL MUNRO She was in the loaded heat for sure. She clipped the third hurdle with her leg again. She had a good... BILL MUNRO I'm really excited for our team. The guys came together to win a hard-fought, tight, ball game. They... JAMIE MUNRO We had a lot on our list to accomplish this season. (Beating) Valdosta was one of those. They kept u... LYNDSAY MUNRO They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t... JESS MUNRO It's funny but last year I went through the same thing. Both goalies went down at the same time, And... ADAM MUNRO He made a big save. He must be listening to the goaltending coach, because he used the body pretty w... ADAM MUNRO Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, kni... CHARLOTTE MUNRO But we aren't a camping family. JAMIE MUNRO It was amazing. You had two huge crowds on the same night. You'd think they'd take away from each ot... JAMIE MUNRO It's grown so fast, it's hard to find the expertise for a start-up program. JAMIE MUNRO We had a good game today. Jeb had a great game and we had some guys really step up for us on both th... JAMIE MUNRO Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great tea... JAMIE MUNRO When you're 22 years old, you may or may not be a man. (Snider) is a man. He has been through a lot ... JAMIE MUNRO I think we really try to make our guys multi-dimensional. We want complete players. JAMIE MUNRO That's not going to happen. You become smarter. You learn from your mistakes. It's not going to happ... LYNDSAY MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO J. RICHARD MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu... WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m... JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys... JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY ALICE WATERS ALICE OSWALD ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ... ALICE DREGER ALICE OSWALD ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor... ALICE WALTON ALICE WALKER ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int... ALICE MCDERMOTT ALICE COOPER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ALICE BLOCH Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style. ALICE TEMPERLEY ALICE POTTER I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys... ALICE ENGLERT I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every... ALICE BRAGA ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth... ALICE KOLLER ALICE COOPER ALICE WALKER I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ... ALICE MILLER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye... ALICE MEYNELL ALICE WALKER ALICE JAMES ALICE WALKER ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter. ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because... ALICE LOWE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition. ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al... ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask. ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo... ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ... ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t... ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ... ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace. ALICE MOORE ALICE MILLER ALICE MILLER ALICE MILLER
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was ver... 
My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond... 
'Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out,... 
Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w... 
I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books... 
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book... 
My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great ending... 
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfactio... 
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is becau... 
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '... 
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... 
You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
One thing I struggled with early in my career was the delicate balance between my performance and my... 
I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early da... 
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;'... 
The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings. 
I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it... 
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they&... 
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... 
There are no happy endings.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was try... 
I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday ... 
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy... 
The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an... 
When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get ... 
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die... 
Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... 
I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe. 
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian ... 
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy 
Bulahdeen ignored her. "I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twen... 
I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but ... 
I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary info... 
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how t... 
I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... 
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l... 
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ... 
I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' s... 
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my... 
The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's jus... 
After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealt... 
My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularl... 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt &#... 
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he d... 
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than ... 
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. 
Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as he looked distracted... 
Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'e... 
I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she ... 
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be... 
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. 
You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig... 
I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of... 
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. 
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. 
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. 
It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea. 
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ... 
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. 
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. 
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. 
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. 
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... 
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... 
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... 
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ... 
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. 
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. 
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... 
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am... 
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe... 
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ... 
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to... 
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu... 