Ann Beattie Quotes

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

Ann Beattie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CameraPhotographyKnowAimProject

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Anna Quindlen

FreeSpeechWhyIgnorantFree Speech

I love it! You know, when I tour college campuses, I always find that the prettiest girls in the room are the ones in the College Republicans.

Ann Coulter

LoveCollegeYouFindKnowRoom

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Stanley Hauerwas

HopeWritingLearnDoneMayWell

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Sol LeWitt

IdeasYouOwnPrisonerYour

It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'

Rob Thomas

FunnyGoodGirlDaughterTeacher

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Lucy Walker

WorkWomenMenWomanPeopleWay

Don't set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift

ChildWitAgainstYourSet

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Johnny Evers

DesireMy OwnBallsWhateverOwn

I went through a lot of hate online, so I tried to change myself for a really long time. But people just kept hating on me no matter what I did. I decided that instead of pleasing these other people, I'll just spend that time pleasing myself.

Ariel Winter

ChangeTimeMyselfHatePeopleMe

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Annie Lennox

MarriageFearFutureFlyingYou

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

Astro Teller

TechnologyCreativityExerciseMore

I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot of wonderful writers writing for Y.A. I feel like I'm in the right place.

Rick Riordan

WritingThinkFeelPlaceWayRight

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