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Anita Brookner Quotes

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: english
Birth: July 16, 1938

Topics

Writing Innocence Attention You Your

What is the origin of God?

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

John L. Phillips

Space Looking Down Stop Windows Out

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Anna Deavere Smith

Smart People Think Country Healthy

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

Love Time Flowers Plants Garden Any

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Great People World Powerful Nation

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

Myself Young Sober Got Finally Been

When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard.

Work Love Job Blame Start Someone

Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They'll option anything - the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea.

Brian Azzarello

Love World Person Just Because Want

A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.

Home Girl Me Story Want Pretty Girl

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Television Down Stop Knowing Turn

My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we'd collect stuff on the beach for our aquarium back in Ohio; we had this big saltwater aquarium back in Ohio. Every time we found anything, any mollusk, my mom would bring out the guidebook and quiz us on what it was, so that stuff was built in early.

Time Beach Spring Parents Mom Drive

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Women Focus Writing Push Way Subtle

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