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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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'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing that might need to hear it. I know music helped me a lot. And still does.
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I don't care who's No. 1 on the call sheet or how big my trailer is. I care about the work. I don't care who gets the laughs. I just care that the laugh comes.
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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.
