Ann Packer Quotes

I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.

Ann Packer

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ChildrenWritingThoughtI CanWrite

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

John Piper

WomenFootballPeopleYouLazyWant

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Shimon Peres

MotherBrotherMeTasteHerGot

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

Robert Dallek

SafetyPoliticalDignityWillNation

I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.

Rodger Berman

GreatChildMomFashionThinkHer

I like war.

Chris Kyle

WarLike

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Christopher Lasch

LifeFamilyLoyaltyLogicValues

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

Clint Eastwood

MeAnimalsBecauseMustLike

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

Chuck Zito

FatherFightMeHowTaught

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Bryan Ferry

FailurePeopleYouChooseHighLike

Rod Lurie is one of the most wonderful directors I have had the pleasure to work with. He shoots like Clint Eastwood: no fuss. When he gets it, he knows it - one or two takes.

Tim Matheson

WorkTwoPleasureWonderfulLikeHe

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Tina Turner

MyselfBetter PersonBetterDream

It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'

Kelsea Ballerini

MeCoolRootsListeningSomeoneYou

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