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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.


Alice Munro

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A lot of it is stories we were telling ourselves last week.
JAMES CORNISH Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
TAYLOR DYE We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stori...
BRYANT GUMBEL So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get sha...
JOHN MARSDEN I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
MARGUERITE MOREAU My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and ...
HILLARY CLINTON I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
BEN MACINTYRE We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.
BETH GIBBONS Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own
CARLA H. KRUEGER How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to oursel...
FRANK OCEAN The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself i...
OLIVIER DAHAN He has a way of telling stories, one of the best I've ever heard.
LARRY CLARK I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we’re telling the st...
SHAUNA NIEQUIST I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
DAVID S. GOYER Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared ...
CAMILLA LACKBERG You know... we all have stories. We all have unique experiences that make each and everyone of us di...
G. BRIAN BENSON Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
VAL KILMER The telling of stories creates the real world.
ALBERTO MANGUEL some stories don't need telling
KHALED HOSSEINI Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the ...
CHRIS CAVANAUGH I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the mas...
CARRIE RYAN I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling the...
DYLAN PENN It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Joh...
CAROL WINDLEY Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what mad...
CANDACE BUSHNELL A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.
ERALDO BANOVAC I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.
BOB SAGET I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possi...
SHEPARD SMITH We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian storie...
YAHOO SERIOUS I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, ...
ALEX WINTER One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ...
JAY-Z Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and ove...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER We have stories to tell and this is a good time for us to start telling them,
HAROLD ROBERTS Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be tol...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of ...
CAMERON CROWE Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi...
MIKE COLTER The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re...
JOE BASTIANICH It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
REBECCA HALL I guess some stories do not need telling.
KHALED HOSSEINI Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling d...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...
MICHAEL SHERMER It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to ke...
BEN MACINTYRE We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's...
ANDREW STANTON It's about the power of stories. It's through our stories that we come to know each other and share ...
FAYANNE HAYES Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
BETTY BUCKLEY Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and oursel...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. W...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our ans...
JEREMY ALDANA In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and...
SHEKHAR KAPUR Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat...
STEVEN LEVITT In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do tha...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something ...
KATE GRENVILLE Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in m...
JINCY WILLETT We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not ...
PATRICIA HAMPL Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight...
MARGARET ATWOOD When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, wh...
ERIK LARSON Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our...
ALICE MUNRO I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling...
NAT KING COLE Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situa...
ATHOL FUGARD I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral ...
ISHMAEL BEAH I'm sure we're going to be up all night telling stories.
BEN JAFFE I could go on for hours telling stories..but I guess youhad to be there
JIMMY BUFFETT I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
CHRIS WOOD Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories ...
SHARON SALZBERG Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
RUTH OZEKI We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a...
AVA DUVERNAY Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
CRYSTAL WOODS Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American the...
THERESA REBECK There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
DANNY BONADUCE I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,
JAMES TOBIN We all went around the table, telling stories, and Marc batted cleanup, as always. There weren't man...
JOEL THOMPSON And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur,...
ERIN MORGENSTERN In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, usi...
KIM EDWARDS North Texas is a very difficult team to guard. We knew we would have our hands full getting out and ...
STEVE SHIELDS Jesus was the great storyteller. He made his points by telling parables or stories.
DAVID WILLIAMSON I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.
JOHN BENNETT I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and th...
J. H. WYMAN Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories...
KELSEY CHOW Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can le...
DAVID STRATHAIRN They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...
JANE YOLEN The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD If the lions would start telling stories to their children, the hunter can’t beat them.
VIKRANT PARSAI And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.
PSYCHE ROXAS-MENDOZA On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairl...
LOUIS THEROUX If we had our preferences, of course we'd like all the stories to be good, strong positive stories. ...
DARRYL SEIBEL Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another mess...
MATT GROENING Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON

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Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be...
ALICE MUNRO When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ...
ALICE MUNRO The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the thin...
ALICE MUNRO The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is ea...
ALICE MUNRO I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ...
ALICE MUNRO I'm sorry I'm not able to be here. It is this attention of yours that has helped me to flourish for ...
ALICE MUNRO The Love of a Good Women.
ALICE MUNRO Sometimes I read one of my stories, maybe one that I wrote thirty years ago, and I think, Now I'd go...
ALICE MUNRO The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the ...
ALICE MUNRO Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as peop...
ALICE MUNRO Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually u...
ALICE MUNRO Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or l...
ALICE MUNRO I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then t...
ALICE MUNRO I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way ever...
ALICE MUNRO Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy...
ALICE MUNRO A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a ...
ALICE MUNRO There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there ...
ALICE MUNRO Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a sp...
ALICE MUNRO I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finis...
ALICE MUNRO William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to wr...
ALICE MUNRO That is pretty well what the doctor said, in a lot more careful words. He says that the pills he's g...
ALICE MUNRO I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, ...
ALICE MUNRO In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - ...
ALICE MUNRO You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
ALICE MUNRO What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...
ALICE MUNRO Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight ...
ALICE MUNRO She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...
ALICE MUNRO I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and g...
ALICE MUNRO Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
ALICE MUNRO گريس خودش نمي دانست چقدر سرد است، فكر مي كرد اشتياقي كه ...
ALICE MUNRO The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And thi...
ALICE MUNRO In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes th...
ALICE MUNRO I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything h...
ALICE MUNRO I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov a...
ALICE MUNRO I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there ha...
ALICE MUNRO I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange wor...
ALICE MUNRO The constant happiness is curiosity.
ALICE MUNRO I had my first baby at twenty-one.
ALICE MUNRO I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th...
ALICE MUNRO Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...
ALICE MUNRO It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.
ALICE MUNRO I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the ...
ALICE MUNRO I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselve...
ALICE MUNRO I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could ...
ALICE MUNRO Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our...
ALICE MUNRO I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,&#...
ALICE MUNRO My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...
ALICE MUNRO I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, ...
ALICE MUNRO Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w...
ALICE MUNRO The game was pretty well played defensively by both teams. It's a great feeling to get the shutout, ...
ADAM MUNRO They made some pretty good shots. They seemed to take advantage of their power plays and they've obv...
ADAM MUNRO It's good to get back in there and have a pretty solid game. It's a great feeling to get two points....
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 You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig...
BARRY MUNRO I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of...
BARRY MUNRO I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ...
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 Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
J. RICHARD MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul,...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu...
WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood tha...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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 Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
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 One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
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 You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
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 I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
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 The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
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 The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
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 Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
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 The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER