"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."

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Source : "Go ask Alise". Interview with Newyorker, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2001.

Alice Munro

#Writing Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Play Quotes

“I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.”
“I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.”
“President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is spending far more money than Bush, with a record $1.8 trillion deficit projected for his first year.”
“Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.”
“Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.”
“Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.”
“A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.”
“I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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