Ann Beattie Quotes
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
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A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.
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One of the hardest things is to create hope.
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I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.
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As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.
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The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
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For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
