Annie Dillard Quotes

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1945

Topics

WorldArtistLitOnlyThing

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

Jesmyn Ward

LoveHomeCommunityBackAlways

I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

LifeWorkChildrenPoliticsMeKind

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

FutureHopeShapeYourHopesHurts

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

Tony Kushner

MotherWomanMeThinkSeeingPlay

Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.

Arancha Gonzalez

SometimesSameRoomConnectGet

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

Sharon Gless

BelieveYouKnowSomethingJust

The threshold question in a Second Amendment challenge is one of scope: whether the Second Amendment protects the person, the weapon, or the activity in the first place.

Thomas Hardiman

ChallengePlacePersonFirstWeapon

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

No I.D.

TruthYouWhyWayExplainNeeds

I have an acting crush on Gene Hackman; I have an acting crush on Tommy Lee Jones. Gary Cooper. Jimmy Cagney. Michael Gambon. Simon Russell Beale.

Norbert Leo Butz

ActingCrushGeneJimmyTommyLee

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Lynn Schusterman

InspirationRenewalSourceIsraelUs

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Lewis Thompson Preston

PovertyBankWouldObjective

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

Kenya Barris

SupportPeopleBlackFeelSeeUs

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