Anne Truitt Quotes
Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
