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

• 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

• 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

• My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Great
  • She
  • Mother

• We have the best government that money can buy.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Money
  • Government
  • Buy

• It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

  

  Denise Mina
  • School
  • House
  • Chaos

• Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

  

  David Pratt

• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Reading

• I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on.

  

  David Grann
  • Done
  • Fun

• My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • motivation

• 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