Ann Brashares Quotes
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
Ann Brashares
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
Imelda May
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
Laura Prepon
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
Adam Green
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
G. Edward Griffin
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The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
Ed Koch
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
J. Maarten Troost
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
Laura Robson
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Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.
Maisie Williams
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
Edward Hopper
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Just breathing isn't living!
Eleanor Porter
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It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.
Cindy Crawford
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I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
Laurie Helgoe
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
Ann Brashares
