Anne Fadiman Quotes
The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.
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The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured.
