Anita Shreve Quotes
As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one of them and eagerly anticipate them.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
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When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
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I dated this guy who literally would never eat a single vegetable. I was like, 'This is terrible. You eat like a five-year-old.'
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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Being on 'The Office' prepared me for drama. Comedy got me ready, but once you get down to it, they're two sides of the same thing. I mean, the delivery has to be different - in drama, there's more time to breathe, and comedy's all about hitting the joke.
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As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.
