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Ann Beattie Quotes

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Music Culture People Think Say

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Life Friend Fear Death Pain People

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Life Humor You Know Out Head

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.

Life Baseball You Down Just Because

While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.

Friends Inside Outside Bored Hawk

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Experience Imagination Mind Conflict

The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.

Jonathan Franzen

Work Good Technology Freedom Water

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Love Beautiful Real Estate Real Just

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

Me Opportunities Cost Natural Score

I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?

School Eating Speak Why London Up

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Time World Rest Feel Place Never

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Character Yourself Brain You Actor

The bar raises as you go.

William H. Macy

You Go Bar Raises

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