Anita Brookner Quotes
'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'Anita Brookner
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.
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'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'
Anita Brookner
