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Persons Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author…
- Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not…
- Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong.…
- If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much…
- Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
- And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need,…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge,…
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as…
- I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love…
- Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
- Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash