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.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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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!
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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.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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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.
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As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.
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I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.
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When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.
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I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
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If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending
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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.
