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Anne McCaffrey Quotes

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

Anne McCaffrey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing You Down Go Want Believing

Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Good Red Me Hair Better Person You

I'm one of those people who says 'Yes' to everything, and in New York, that's a real liability. In the city, I could be playing seven nights a week and not finding the time to finish my own compositions.

Jenny Scheinman

Time New York People City Finding

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

Melanie Fiona

Positive Parents Me World Building

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

John McGahern

Rain Identity Language Speech Skies

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

John Lydon

Morning I Am Joy Prison Stillness

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

Robbie Robertson

Love Music New Band Always Toronto

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

Slow Enough Long Matter Photographer

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Jason Mraz

Music Want Escape Playing Keep

When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

Dean Norris

Gun Fake Find Looks Play Teachers

I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Women Time Feel Doing Enjoy Skin

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Norman Angell

Service Men Man Him Greatest Common

Nobody had anticipated that chemicals was the direction in which Reliance was headed. I did chemical engineering because it was supposed to be the future.

Mukesh Ambani

Future Direction Engineering Nobody