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Annie Dillard Quotes

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Grace Writing You Look Only

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Home Baseball Team Game Color Rules

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

Love Job College You Place First

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

Live Business Truth History Facts

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

Myself Experience I Am People Strong

Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

Life Faith Respect People My Life

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

Sleep Used Earthquake Until

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Style Me Voice Look My Own Own

Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.

Back Place Him Just Bill Clinton

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Think Just Than Many Female Overall

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

Purpose Safety Control You Banking

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.

Life Society Political Country Made

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

Beer Craft Take Cemetery Make Them

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