Ann Cleeves Quotes

Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

Ann Cleeves

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• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Work
  • Political
  • Unity

• I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Realize
  • Arms

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Most
  • Occasions
  • Kinds

• India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Taken
  • Open

• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Lie

• I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Live
  • Always

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Poverty
  • Poor
  • Choose

• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Talent

• There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Think
  • Married

• I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Equal
  • Congress

• It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Black
  • Justice
  • System

• The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Eye
  • Prison
  • Brotherhood

• Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.

  

  Victor Hugo

• When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

  

  Avicii
  • Work
  • Music
  • Done

• If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Women
  • Real
  • Book

• The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

  

  Michael Oren
  • American
  • Criticism
  • Left

• Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

  

  Ann Cleeves