Ann Beattie Quotes

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

Ann Beattie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.

John Bonham

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I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

Max Beckmann

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Meredith Vieira warms my heart.

Matt Lauer

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Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

Merle Haggard

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Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Sissy Spacek

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Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Tom Jones

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In college, I was a theater and film major at Kansas University. I always had an affinity for comedy. I could probably quote everything from 'Caddyshack,' 'Stripes,' and all those great comedies from the '80s.

Rob Riggle

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The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau

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I wanted to do an R-rated cartoon since I watched 1981's 'Heavy Metal.'

Conrad Vernon

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I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Brett Ratner

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I started acting professionally at age 19.

Bruce Boxleitner

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I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

Alfred Werner

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