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Ann Patchett Quotes

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1963

Topics

Nature Person Living Out Tennessee

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Life Alone Beautiful Believe Find

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

Truth Animal Sympathy Truth Is You

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

Funny God City World You Honey

I think we always have to put forth music that's better than the last.

Music Think Better Always Last Than

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

Parents Think Winner Fall Perfect

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

Voting Powerful Three Become Over

One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.

Jonathan Mostow

Challenge Thinking Look Try Never

I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore.

Thought Evening Better Feel You

The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.

Free Giving Furniture Play Street

Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

Child Something Been Obsessed Since

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

Bryant H. McGill

Learn Someone Trying Teach Way More

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

Fear Myself Job Me Overcoming Think

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