Ann Leckie Quotes

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.

Ann Leckie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton

EnvyBodyAfricaMy OwnMoreOwn

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Jesmyn Ward

HistoryThinkBlindPresentUnited

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Joel Kinnaman

PowerImaginationFeelYouMovies

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Andrew Haigh

AloneBeing AloneWorldTryingFind

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

AgeReligionMeDreamKnowMockery

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessJobMistakesStartYou

I have instincts.

Robert M. Gates

Instincts

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Ann Aguirre

WomenMenTwoWomen AreDistress

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Michael Caine

LiveWorldThinkRestaurantYouNow

As president, Barack Obama has the potential to finally bring our country together to meet the enormous challenges ahead. This includes restoring economic prosperity, moving toward energy independence, delivering affordable health care for all, and implementing a responsible, effective foreign policy.

Amy Klobuchar

HealthTogetherChallengesMoving

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Treat Williams

TimeFlyPlanesHelicopters

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

Rob Sheffield

SadLonelinessPetCityWeirdYou

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