Ann Oakley Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.
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Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
