Anna Quindlen Quotes

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
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• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Depression
  • Medication

• I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
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• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • King
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• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  

  Ray Bradbury
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• I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • People
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• Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • People
  • Bad
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• I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

  

  Will Oldham
  • People
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• If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Work
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• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  

  Anna Quindlen
  • People
  • She
  • Girl