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Ann Brashares Quotes

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 30, 1967

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Beginning Wonder Move On Strange How

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives.

I Am People Impact New Will Real

I want the Congress that really is going to listen to the people. I really don't care what party it is anymore.

Sophie B. Hawkins

People Care Party Congress Want

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Think Talking You Rebel Down Kids

Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.

Time Angry Me Guitar Look Jazz

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

Stress War College You Comfort Out

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Fear Losing Mind Me World Think

It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

King People World Say Monster Movie

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

Children Great Empathy Climb Pen Go

Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth's resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.

Earth Three Want Hollywood Resources

I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.

Day Wife Me Walking Doing You

I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.

Baby Think Feel Would Like Kids

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

Heart Government Door Holocaust Out

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