Anne Donovan Quotes
Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
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It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
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'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
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Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
