Ann Beattie Quotes

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Ann Beattie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Other dogs may do their jobs in their own unique and perfectly wonderful ways, but there will always be that dog that no dog will replace, the dog that will make you cry even when it's been gone for more years than it could ever have lived.

Meghan Daum

DogYouUniqueCryWillMore

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

LifeFutureLiveMountainGoalTop

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

Michael Gurian

MotherJobBackComingHoldManhood

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Steve Martin

ArtYouWantCraftWhateverYour

My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.

Tom Catena

FatherMotherMomentMeTalking

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Tom Felton

WantMoreYearsWhateverOutTake

I liked the sort of YA classics. I loved 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' I loved 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander, who is amazing. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in.

Robin Sloan

AmazingLovedClassicsWhoSortYa

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Mikhail Bakunin

GodTogetherWishHumanityTwoHere

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

Mike Leigh

IntegrityMeLongImportantEveryone

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Minoru Yamasaki

BeginningCityBuildingSt. Louis

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Dean Koontz

GoalsPowerThinkGoalDebateGet

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

Clyde Tombaugh

FunTeenPeopleYouYoungStudy

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