Anna Funder Quotes

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

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• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Daily
  • Page
  • Newspaper

• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Driving
  • Hatred

• The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • American
  • Fashion

• Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Never
  • Find

• Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.

  

  Rain
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Fall

• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Country
  • Brave
  • Coward

• A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Important

• 'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Childhood

• The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Space

• I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Present

• The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

  

  James Monroe
  • Stock

• Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Up
  • Football
  • Blue

• A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hates
  • Beggar
  • Begging

• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  

  Anna Funder
  • Past
  • Grit
  • Pearl