Annie Dillard Quotes
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
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In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
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Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I don't normally do pure historical work.
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
