Ann Petry Quotes

All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.

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• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Food
  • Always

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Freedom

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Present
  • Religion
  • Facts

• What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Cold
  • Everyone
  • Too Much

• Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Out
  • Carried
  • Atrocities

• I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Times

• Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

  

  T.I.
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Man

• A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • World

• It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Breakfast

• I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Life
  • World
  • Character

• Acting is important to me, but so is the rest of my life, and what I still keep in mind is that the pressure of being successful lasts so short a time.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Trials
  • Superiors

• All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.

  

  Ann Petry
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