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Annie Dillard Quotes

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children Myself World Over Years

I always was irritated doing network television... You're in love, you make love. That happens.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Love Doing You Television Always

I've never felt opera was a party I've been invited to, and maybe I've got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it.

Party Never Shoulder Opera Got Been

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Funny Good Time Me Play Lucky

My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought.

Father Time Me Crazy Proud Thought

I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then, when I graduated, that didn't happen immediately. I didn't suddenly get solo shows in Chelsea, and I realized that is actually kind of difficult to break into.

Art Thought Kind Photographer Break

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

America Virtue Point Vice Seek

Fighting in the UFC means that I'm at the top of the sport, and it means that I'm able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.

Champion Fighting Goal Top Pursue

If I'm playing bad, then I know we're not winning a lot of games, and we're definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Winning Bad Know Games Playing Pass

I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

Grateful Me Society Rich Farmer Get

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

Day Job Singing Way Put Day Job

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

Aristide Briand

Group More Outside Europe Ethnic

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

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