Ann Beattie Quotes

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

Ann Beattie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Joe Biden

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I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

Ann Demeulemeester

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Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

Steve King

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If there's a role for me in something in the future to do with 'The Last of Us,' absolutely I would do it, twice on Sunday.

Troy Baker

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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Rita Coolidge

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I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

Miranda Kerr

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When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Joseph Wambaugh

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When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

Selena

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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Martin Buber

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I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.

Les Claypool

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I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

Julie Chen

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I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation, and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.

Herb Kelleher

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