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Audiobook Narrator Inspirational Quotes (652)

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The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
Philip Pullman
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I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.
Robin Williams
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I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
Robin Williams
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My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.
Robin Williams
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I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
Daniel Pennac
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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
Toni Morrison
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There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard you'll do what's honest, not what pays
Toni Morrison
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I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
Robin Williams
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Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.
Toni Morrison
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Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
Toni Morrison
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Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, we will fix it.. It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.
Robin Williams
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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
Philip Pullman
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If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.
Robin Williams
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If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.
Robin Williams
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The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
Toni Morrison
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Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go omg, omg, wtf, zzz? Is that rude?
Robin Williams
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Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
Toni Morrison
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Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!
Robin Williams
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My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
Robin Williams
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We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Robin Williams
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
Toni Morrison
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
Toni Morrison
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It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
Toni Morrison
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