Ann Patchett Quotes

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Ann Patchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

Jimmy Fallon

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Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.

Joel Fuhrman

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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

Jeb Hensarling

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Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

John Shelton Reed

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I do believe it is important to be future-ready with a portfolio to be able to deal with however the market evolves. This is better than just forecasting accurately but in having the weapons ready to deal with the uncertainties.

Anand Mahindra

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I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best.

Sonya Walger

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My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

Shy Glizzy

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People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

Martin Winterkorn

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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Mary Astell

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The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Julia Roberts

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Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.

Jordan Peele

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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

Bruce Jackson

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