Anne Fortier Quotes

Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.

Anne Fortier

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FuturePowerAlwaysWithinFiction

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.

Joel Salatin

EconomicsStartDownTrueFarming

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

John Lasseter

YouJokesWorseDeliverSoonKnew

I've always been a little homemaker.

Amy Winehouse

AlwaysLittleBeenHomemaker

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

Tom King

YourselfEmpathyWritingSomeoneYou

At Christmas time, I spent an extortionate amount of money on Buzz Lightyear toys, baby clothes, Disney cars and the like.

Russell Tovey

TimeMoneyBabyClothesChristmas

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

Rudy Giuliani

GreatNew YorkCityNewOverFour

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.

Mary Oliver

ChildWoodsLovedBicycleYoung

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Martin Rees

SpaceCircleEarthLostGlamour

I like 'Harry Potter.' I've seen all of them, I think.

Jared Goff

ThinkSeenLikeHarry PotterI Think

It would be meaningful if I can get a gold medal in my parents' country.

Chloe Kim

ParentsGoldI CanCountryGet

When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen.

Conor McGregor

SayHappenSomethingGoing

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Chuck Palahniuk

MenMeStoryLookYoungNowhere

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