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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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.
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I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
