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Anne McCaffrey Quotes

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1926 - November 21, 2011

Topics

Life Writing My Life Used Annoyed

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Truth Creativity Job People Cool

Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

Good Reputation Good Person Bad Want

Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too 'nutty,' you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that's down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.

Family Friends Picnic Attention You

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

Art Dumb Being Just Your Then

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Stanley Smith Stevens

Survey Psychology Technical Century

By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them.

Confidence Virtue President Protect

I let people say and write what they want.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

People Say Want Write People Say

I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in a flower arrangement: I believe humour is a great balancer.

Work Flower Great Believe Try Lace

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Data Cards Punch Used Computer

I think the story is my form.

Story Think I Think Form

Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.

Science Art Me Real Estate Help Go

We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

People Now Machines Nimble Around

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