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.
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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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I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I prefer to play up front, but if the coach puts me on the wing, then that means it is better for the team, and for me, that is the most important thing.
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It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.
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I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don't eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep.
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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.
