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If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us. Karen Joy Fowler
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text. Mal Peet
aloud clumsy great possible rewrite sort work
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work. Ruth Rendell
aloud force level
One thing you're not aloud to do is escalate the level of force being used. Jason Lewis
aloud american-artist became history tales wonderful
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. Andrew Wyeth
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But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. Bible Bible
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People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts. Angelina Jolie
aloud books future higher men
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. Garson Kanin
aloud became himself later listened mom months nine pregnant published ray writer
Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.
american-artist
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage. Captain Beefheart
american-artist people
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
american-artist
I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
american-artist himself man worst
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
american-artist slug
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
american-artist brown correctly good james lower
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
american-artist
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
american-artist less money
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
became city pirates pittsburgh team winning
What the team did in the 1970s was kind of put Pittsburgh on the map. It became a city of champions, and you had the Pirates winning and the Penguins winning. Bill Cowher
became country cross expressed good interest learning mostly skiing treat work
When he first started he had mostly an alpine background. Then he expressed an interest in skiing cross country. There were some learning years but he became a very good skier. He was a real treat to work with.
became feeling guys sick start team third top
We were a sick team at the start of it, and then I thought we became a banged-up team as well, ... A third of the team is feeling like it should be in bed. We need a bye right now. It was a long preseason. And now we're a little banged up on top of that. I just need to get these guys a break. Steve Mariucci
became guys hard move outside second worked
We have so many guys who can make plays. We worked on getting a hard outside move because they like to go with the first move. We worked on it so much it became second nature. It was just like practice. Braylon Edwards
became finally life
When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life. Morris Gleitzman
became dad found fun great husband london moved reason source unlike
When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure. Julie Burchill
became horror interested moved obsessed
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends. Jamaica Kincaid
became beyond cancer died exciting human jump knew neighbour pair parachute response sponsored three
When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous. Tamsin Greig
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When I was 16 and 17, I used to follow the fire trucks on my bike. I was able to follow because they spilled water when they turned corners. When I turned 18, they changed the bylaws to let me volunteer, but I couldn't ride the trucks until I turned 21. I volunteered for the fire department for 37 years until Blue Ash became a village and they bought two trucks.
history morality interest
History is not written in the interests of morality. Agnes Repplier
history favors may
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
history fluid ifs
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
history action function
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. Charles de Gaulle
history simply
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
history men mystique pure ring tradition
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. Sugar Ray Leonard
history lies people primitive rarely
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. Ashwin Sanghi
history indicate people time
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere. Toyin Odutola
history known worth year
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. Thomas Starr King
tales forgetful tedious
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? Charles Caleb Colton
tales
Trust the tale, not the teller. David Knopfler
tales ends universe
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now. Chang-Rae Lee
tales
I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. David Gregory
tales
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. Jane Levy
tales
Every tale is not to be believed. Aesop
tales familiarity truest
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. Erin Morgenstern
tales mice
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. Gelett Burgess
tales tact discretion
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. Gregory Peck
wonderful
It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation. Elizabeth Wilson
wonderful hypothetical
Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. Alan Moore
wonderful scientist interest
I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating. Alan Alda
wonderful
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. Cheryl Strayed
wonderful used many-friends
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like. Casey Stengel
wonderful
When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose. Bill Nye
wonderful frailty humans
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty. Bing Crosby
wonderful bluegrass glad
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it. Bill Monroe
wonderful accepting ifs
If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful. Bette Midler