Anita Shreve Quotes
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.
Anita Shreve
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
Daddy Yankee
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
Patricia Polacco
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
Fatos Nano
It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
Victor Garber
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.
Bruce McCall
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Horace Greeley
We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.
Meg White
The White Stripes
I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.
Paul Walker
I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
John Caudwell
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.
Anita Shreve
