Ann Brashares Quotes
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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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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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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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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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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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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In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.
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I have found life so beautiful.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
