Ann McKee Quotes
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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Callas? She was pure electricity.
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'The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not.'
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The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.
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I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
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I feel like Dr. Death.
