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Ann Patchett Quotes

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Amazing Door Writing Hide Down Go

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Amazing She Her Elizabeth Taylor

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

Hope Design Will Sound Spread May

We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

Security Never Human Rights Afford

If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.

Andrew Breitbart

Problem You Go Clean Out Academic

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

Song My Own Years Trumpet Own Rap

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.

John Perry Barlow

Business Care Friends Seeing Movies

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Stephen Spender

Chaos Rich You Understand Master

I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

Love Home Great Day People Think

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

History School Black Black History

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back. I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

Small Energy Think You Back Person

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

Time Job Me Like Fact Taken

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

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