Ann Beattie Quotes
It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
Ann Beattie
Quotes to Explore
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
Xavier Becerra
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
K. Flay
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
Nancy Roman
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
Larry Brown
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
Nancy Kerrigan
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
Dan Castellaneta
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
Wendy E. Long
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. Austin
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Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.
Daniel Baldwin
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Ein' feste burg is unser Gott,ein gute wehr und waffen.Er hilft uns frei aus aller not,die uns itzt hat betroffen.
Martin Luther
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Give shape, artist! don't talk!
Your poem be but a breath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart:
The proud to gain it toils on toils endure,
The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Edward Joseph Young
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
Ann Beattie
