"Our minds have a tendency to wander. To……" — Dani Shapiro
"Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand."
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55 Quotes by Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro has 55 quotes on this site.
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I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the…
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I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them…
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With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and…
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It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories…
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Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.
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Courage is more important than confidence
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You can start your day over anytime.
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Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape…
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In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer,…
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and…
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it…
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our…
— Bono
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the…
— Nicolas Cage
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Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but…
— Nicolas Cage
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I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and…
— Julia Child
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun…
— Ira Berkow
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I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The…
— Gore Vidal
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You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?
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