Anne Fletcher Quotes

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

Anne Fletcher

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• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Business
  • Together

• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Golf

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Power
  • Far
  • Global

• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• The wisdom of our ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Wisdom

• Look under the 'Love and Friendship' section and see dozens of cards designed for women to send to women, most bashing men, and virtually none saying anything loving about men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friendship

• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • Home
  • Personality

• I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Education
  • Community
  • Support

• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Time
  • Live
  • Death

• I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • People
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Feelings
  • Inferiority
  • Overconfident

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Important
  • Writing
  • War

• I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

  

  Chris Abani
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Dad
  • Reading
  • Uncle

• When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

  

  Anne Fletcher
  • Reading
  • Head
  • Stuck