Ann Maxwell Quotes
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.
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All our efforts must tend towards light.
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The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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You can only write your own vision.
