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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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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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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…the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That's it.
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I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
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It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
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If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.
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I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.
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Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
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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.
