Ann Beattie Quotes
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.
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At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.
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There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.
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Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
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The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.
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The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.
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You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
