Ann Beattie Quotes
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I get a great high from writing.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.
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If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
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I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.
