Ann Leckie Quotes

Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.

Ann Leckie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1966

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The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

Joe Bastianich

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My approach has always been rather sensual.

Jil Sander

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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey

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Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

Maury Yeston

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Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

Shooter Jennings

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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

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I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Loretta Lynn

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It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Brian Helgeland

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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.

Ashton Eaton

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I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

Willy Bogner, Jr.

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