Anita Brookner Quotes
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
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They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
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I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
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I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...
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Du sollst dir kein Ideal machen, weder eines Engels im Himmel, noch eines Helden aus einem Gedicht oder Roman, noch eines selbstgeträumten oder fantasirten; sondern du sollst einen Mann lieben, wie er ist.
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'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'
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Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
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Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.
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I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.
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There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.
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I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
Anita Brookner
