Ann Zwinger Quotes
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think 'Hey you, get off the floor!' was my name.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
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For everyone who has carried water in thimbles and teaspoons throughout the centuries. And for all those who continue to do so. For as many centuries as it takes.
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Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
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Never assume the obvious is true.
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Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
