Annie Dillard Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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Without initiative, or the capacity to act, to make things happen or just to do something, we run the risk of living passive lives waiting for things to happen. We wait for opportunities instead of making them. We wait for love, for our big break, for a problem to disappear. We are waiting for our lives to live us, instead of going out and living our lives with purpose and action.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
