Annie Jacobsen Quotes
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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America is huge.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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There's no business like show business.
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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.
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Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
