Ann Patchett Quotes
People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
Ann Patchett
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
Hamza Yusuf
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Kate Bush
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
Rachele Brooke Smith
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
Patrick Whitesell
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
Tariq Ali
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
Maggie Smith
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
Orson Scott Card
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
Xavier Rudd
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
Ann Patchett
