Ann Beattie Quotes

Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

Ann Beattie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.

Anand Mahindra

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I don't believe love has borders. If I meet a nice man in China, I definitely think it's possible.

Song Hye-kyo

LoveManBelieveThinkNiceMeet

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

Siri Hustvedt

ImaginationChildBrotherYoungBoy

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

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When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'

Lizzie Brochere

WorkStoryAmericanAlienHorror

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Lorenzo Snow

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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

Colin Firth

MotherRelationshipAmericaYearUp

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

Brian Moore

JourneyLongCountryYoungAlways

Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.

Aretha Franklin

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I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity.

Peter Heller

FamilyCreativityTwoFullSisters

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Shaan

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