I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.


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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
ANN BEATTIE
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together a...
ANN BEATTIE
Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
ANN BEATTIE
Picturing Will.
ANN BEATTIE
It was very much a surprise,
ANN BEATTIE
whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.
ANN BEATTIE
It was very much a surprise. It's very nice when someone takes notice.
ANN BEATTIE
have been forced to close and have no idea when they may reopen.
ANN BEATTIE
When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to fo...
IAN BEATTIE
If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautifu...
IAN BEATTIE
And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high, The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
JAMES BEATTIE
I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are...
JAMES BEATTIE
And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, i...
JAMES BEATTIE
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
JAMES BEATTIE
Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode, And oft on ...
JAMES BEATTIE
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With h...
JAMES BEATTIE
No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each ...
JAMES BEATTIE
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
ANN BEATTIE
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
JAMES BEATTIE
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interest...
ANN BEATTIE
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. ...
ANN BEATTIE
You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would ha...
JIM BEATTIE
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
JAMES BEATTIE
They're a good football team that's physical and hasn't had a lot of breaks.
BILL BEATTIE
It would be nice to have one of those guys back, but we can't dwell on it. These guys have done a go...
BILL BEATTIE
I thought our starters did a good job, came out and got it done from the start. Our defense didn't g...
BILL BEATTIE
There's not a more deserving man than him. The mark he's left on the community is fantastic.
BILL BEATTIE
He's definitely out for two-to-three weeks minimum -- and that's the good news. The bad news is surg...
BILL BEATTIE
They found out they can't count on what's happened in the past, ... When you have success, you think...
BILL BEATTIE
We hope to throw it around more, too, ... Especially since we don't have that seasoned offensive lin...
BILL BEATTIE
As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't f...
IAN BEATTIE
And lo! In the dark east, expanded high, the rainbow brightens to the setting sun.
JAMES BEATTIE
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here an...
JAMES BEATTIE
It's a fresh, masculine and modern fragrance.
SCOTT BEATTIE
Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing enamoured of the nut-brown maid.
JAMES BEATTIE
It's hard to express oneself at times like this,
MALCOLM BEATTIE
We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before.
PETER BEATTIE
We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.
PETER BEATTIE
The CMC will have to determine what they will do,
PETER BEATTIE
One thing we are determined to do is not put the people of Bundaberg and the patients of Dr Patel th...
PETER BEATTIE
It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess.
PETER BEATTIE
Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery.
PETER BEATTIE
Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...alw...
ANN BEATTIE
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season...
JAMES BEATTIE
We're breathing a sigh of relief.
LEE BEATTIE
Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anythin...
JIM BEATTIE
We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.
LYNN BEATTIE
We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats),
PETER BEATTIE
We're a team. You're going to face adversity through the season,
BILL BEATTIE
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE
He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.
JAMES BEATTIE