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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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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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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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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When asked, 'So, what are you going to do with the rest of your life?': 'I'm going to be a jockey.'
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I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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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.
