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.
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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.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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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.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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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.
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I don't drink coffee.
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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.
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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.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
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The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
