Anne Fine Quotes
I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are no longer going all their way.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
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The question of where Europe ends and Asia begins has troubled many people over the years, but here's a rule of thumb: if someone can pose as an expert on the country in question without knowledge of the relevant language, it's part of Asia.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
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What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
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I hate it when people insist on wrangling with you about something, then try to stop as soon as they see the arguments are no longer going all their way.
