Anna Funder Quotes
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.
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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.
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When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.
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Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
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Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. (p. 303)
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'Look, Nelson. Maybe I haven't done everything right in my life. I know I haven't. But I haven't committed the greatest sin. I haven't laid down and died.'
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What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.
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There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
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The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
