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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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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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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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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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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To be at the Oscars for 'American Sniper' and then also supporting Red Carpet Green Dress is just twice as cool for me.
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I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
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I was asked to speak at a bar association, because there's an upswing on college applications - in general and for Latinos - because of 'L.A. Law.' I went to a couple of functions, and I just felt an energy: It was, you're doing a good job, but do you realize how important it is?
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I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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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.
