Mary Karr Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down. – Mary Karr Attention Quotes Awake Quotes Broke Quotes Childhood Quotes Control Quotes Feet Quotes Flat Quotes Illiterate Quotes Keen Quotes Kid Quotes Pay Quotes People Quotes Pick Quotes Snaps Quotes Tall Quotes Terrifying Quotes Terror Quotes Unemployed Quotes For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I’ve written all morning. On a good week, I don’t go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail. As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
Emma Hayes The football world needs to live by its promises and live by the diversity codes. They need to be promoting opportunities for the less privileged. That’s what I want to see. – Emma Hayes
AngerThomas Bernhard The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. – Thomas Bernhard
Romola Garai My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood. – Romola Garai
Kevin Anderson It started with my parents, my dad who taught me growing up, my brother who played as well. I spent a lot of time with him. Then, getting into the pro side, there have been a lot of people who have worked with me along the years. – Kevin Anderson
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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