Ann Beattie Quotes
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
Ann Beattie
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
Ed Weeks
It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Kate Christensen
My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
Edith Head
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
E. L. Doctorow
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
Patricia Schroeder
I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
Fedor Emelianenko
People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
Nalini Nadkarni
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
Cameron Mackintosh
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
Dalai Lama
I have a Prius, but I'd love to have a white convertible like Richard Gere's in 'American Gigolo.'
Maren Morris
I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.
Bianca Balti
I'm a screamer and a yeller. When I want something, all I do is yell, and I get responses.
Alex Spanos
So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.
Joanne Rowling
It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
Caitlin Moran
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
Ann Beattie
