Anna Meredith Quotes
I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Our interests are very much aligned. Our attempts of cooperation are very much aligned.
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Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family.
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I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die. I know that's a cliché but it happens to be true. Not just the famous ones who everyone knows, the Clark Gables, the Ava Gardners, but the bit players, the maid carrying the tray, the butler, the cowboys in the bar, the third girl from the left in the nightclub. They're all immortal to me. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
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I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
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P. 33.
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I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
