Ann Rinaldi Quotes

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

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• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

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• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

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• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

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• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

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• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

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• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

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• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

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• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

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• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

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• I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

  

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• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  

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• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

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• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  

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• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

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• Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

  

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• Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

  

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• I respect the Premier League.

  

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• Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

  

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• Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

  

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• As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

  

  Ann Rinaldi
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