Ann Brashares Quotes
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.
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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
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A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
