Ree Drummond (Ann Marie Drummond) Quotes
I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think, for people of color, our work is always seen as kind of anthropological artifact regardless. So, there's always going to be that assumption, but even more so in a memoir because often the names aren't even changed. It is easier to verify.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
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I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
