Ann Druyan Quotes

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

Ann Druyan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 13, 1949

Topics

ChildrenDayMeNightDieWant

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Andrei Platonov

WorldNothingInsideSorrowDoes

I remember when 'Daddy Day Care' came out, I saw fathers and their sons and daughters walking out of the theater and talking about the movie. That's the neatest thing.

Steve Carr

DayCareWalkingTalkingRemember

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.

Steve Erickson

ArtPeopleNiceHerSomeMany

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Tony Kushner

QuietShySocialAwkwardSortTend

I think you're always drawn to what you love, and I'm always really drawn to things that feel really real and really true to me. I love things that make me think of things in a way I hadn't, and I love looking at people in the world in a way that I hadn't. And sometimes big, huge stories do that for me, but I think I am drawn to smaller ones.

Rosemarie DeWitt

LoveI AmPeopleMeWorldLooking

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud

WorkI AmMePersonWantPaint

I'm one of the most tested athletes in the world.

Lizzie Armitstead

WorldMostAthletesTested

It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.

Christine Gregoire

ThoughtRunMoreWouldThanMuch

As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

Arjun Rampal

ChildCollegeEconomicsEndCareer

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.

Anthony Carmona

CultureRainbowCountryPrincipal

As consumers, we can pressure corporations both to monitor and improve workplace conditions overseas - when inspections reveal violations, these companies should address the gaps immediately.

Alissa Quart

PressureWorkplaceImproveReveal

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Alfred Hitchcock

MoviesPossibleAlwaysAudienceMuch

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