Ann Patchett Quotes

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Help
  • Hurt

• I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Man
  • Black
  • Deep

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Words
  • Way
  • Favorite

• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Face

• I don't really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don't believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it's good or not.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Music
  • People
  • Decide

• I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Football

• The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Find
  • First

• More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge
  • College

• Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Works
  • Stumble

• I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book