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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 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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Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.
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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
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God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
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Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.
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The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
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I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
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I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
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We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be the "in music" at the time.
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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.
