Ann Hood Quotes
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
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If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.