Ann Packer Quotes
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don't think it's necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it's about... my track record, my results.
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I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
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I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
