Ann Brashares Quotes

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Ann Brashares

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YourselfBabyYouLoseCreateLike

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

Jillian Hervey

FireMeSingingTreatFirstCoach

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Jet Li

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I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Jewel

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For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Joey Lauren Adams

GoodWomenHardGetParts

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

Jennifer Saunders

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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

John Paul Jones

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In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

Anna Chlumsky

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When you have Julio Iglesias on a song, I think that's golden.

Romeo Santos

SongThinkYouGoldenI Think

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Martin Rees

HopeWillCraftSolarSystemBeen

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

JR

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I found school very boring and frustrating.

Jose Ferreira

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'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

Jonathan Franzen

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