Fanny Howe Quotes
My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.
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At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
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I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
