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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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 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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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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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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'I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?' 'The Porter settled that some time ago,' said the Second Voice. 'Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay.'
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It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
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That which is impossible has a permanent and constant property, which is not the result if some agent, and cannot in any way change, and consequently we do not ascribe to God the power of doing what is impossible.
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Say the most personal thing, say it, nothing else matters, don’t be ashamed, the generalities can be found in the newspaper.
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I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.
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I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.
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The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
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Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.
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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.
