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Audiobook Narrator Inspirational Quotes (652)

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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
Toni Morrison
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Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.
Toni Morrison
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A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
Philip Pullman
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My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything it was always, If you want to do that, fine. When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, Fine, but study welding just in case.
Robin Williams
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If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.
Robin Williams
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But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.
Philip Pullman
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Toni Morrison
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.
Robin Williams
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I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.
Toni Morrison
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I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
Toni Morrison
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We have to learn everything we do.
Philip Pullman
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Toni Morrison
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they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly
Toni Morrison
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After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was I just have fewer dents in my car.
Robin Williams
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My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
Robin Williams
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It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.
Robin Williams
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A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy
Toni Morrison
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I've never had a hankering to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.
Robin Williams
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I feel like I'm a big human snot.
Robin Williams
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My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.
Toni Morrison
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What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.
Philip Pullman
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It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
Robin Williams
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
Toni Morrison
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