Annie Proulx Quotes

All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.

Annie Proulx

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'

  

  Cam
  • Good
  • Job
  • Parents

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• I want to help people; that's it.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Help
  • Want

• The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • You
  • Always
  • Week

• I've been doing African dance all my life.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Life
  • Dance
  • My Life

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Food
  • Change
  • Older

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

  

  Wale
  • Why
  • Man
  • Food

• I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • She
  • History

• We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

  

  Larry Craig
  • World
  • Place
  • Our World

• I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Happiness
  • Limit
  • WIld

• My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Expectations

• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failure
  • Invisible
  • Standing

• And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Past
  • Running
  • Winning

• People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

  

  Bailey Whitfield Diffie
  • Work
  • Politics
  • Problems

• All stemmed from Quoyle's chief failure, a failure of normal appearance.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Failure