Anne Rivers Siddons Quotes
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.
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Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.
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The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
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It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
