Ann Hood Quotes

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

Ann Hood

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Movement
  • Elegance
  • Posture

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Money
  • Book
  • House

• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Professional

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Perception

• That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Religion

• America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Own

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Looks
  • Dreams
  • Inside

• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Questions

• Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Style
  • Body

• Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Men
  • Words
  • Play

• I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead with that. I didn't want people to look at me like that's all I am.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • People
  • Time
  • Gay

• Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

  

  Alan King
  • Mind
  • Bird

• It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  

  James Roosevelt
  • Amazing

• I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Sing
  • Onstage
  • Drums

• I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

  

  Ann Hood
  • People
  • Book
  • Truth