Anne Fadiman Quotes

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

Anne Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1953

Topics

ImaginationCollegeMeShortWant

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Jimi Hendrix

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I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

John Bradshaw

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There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age.

Jessica Chastain

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

John Donne

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My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

Matt Cameron

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In my early campaigns, people would sometimes come up to me at a grocery store or at a shopping mall and say, 'I know you from somewhere.'

Amy Klobuchar

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I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it.

Tom Lenk

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In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

Robbie Robertson

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I sucked in school.

Miranda Lambert

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Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering.

Brandon Jenner

MeCoolPictureWantWillSomebody

If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.

Anthony Padilla

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We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

Paul Wolfowitz

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