Really Knew Quotes
84 quotes by 76 authors
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I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry a lot about…
— Austin Kleon
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It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was…
— Josh Gad
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If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew…
— Anne Hathaway
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I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I…
— Emma Watson
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Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never…
— Rebecca Solnit
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My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If…
— Grace Paley
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I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a…
— Denis Johnson
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I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind…
— Rachel Vincent
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I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew…
— Lloyd Jones
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more…
— Lucy Grealy
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A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on…
— Graham Greene
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be…
— Janet Fitch
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That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to…
— Ann Patchett
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These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
— James A. Baldwin
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I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
— Nora Roberts
Who Wrote These Really Knew Quotes
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