Ann Beattie Quotes
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
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Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
