Ann Beattie Quotes

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

Ann Beattie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1947

Topics

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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.

Jessica Williams

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We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

Jeremy Corbyn

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As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

John Knoll

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I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Shelton Reed

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The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.

Ana Navarro

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I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

Amor Towles

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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

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Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Simon McBurney

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At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Michelle Obama

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I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Jason Bateman

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In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.

Janice Dickinson

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