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Anita Shreve Quotes

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1946

Topics

Myself I Am Me Search Universe Lose

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Kid Did Any Grandeur Delusions

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Wall Now Street Crime Individual

Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don't necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence.

Intelligence Words World Connected

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

God Happy Thinking Parent You Look

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

School Tattoo More Never Got Ears

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

Advertising Design Customer You Last

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

Service Quality Training Law Secret

I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh, fabulous jacket,' and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath!'

Mary-Kate Olsen

Love Amazing You Jacket Pajamas See

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

Water Trying Jump Clean Water Clean

I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.

Music Today Together Me Learn Know

I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.

Time Best Day Words School Brain

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Nature Ride Amazing Saying You

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