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.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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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.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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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.
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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.
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'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.
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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.
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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
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My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.
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This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.
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I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
