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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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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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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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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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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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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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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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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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American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
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There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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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.
