Ann Beattie
Related It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in inti... ERIC BRAEDEN There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop... RACHEL WEISZ Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity,... SHERMAN ALEXIE GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ C. JOYBELL C. There's always some room for improvisation. SATYAJIT RAY GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GEORGE TAKEI Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Ho... RICHARD CORLISS C. JOYBELL C. When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It'... EBERHARD WEBER Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element... MICHAEL PITT Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA MARK HADDON GRAEME SIMSION JAKE GYLLENHAAL Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away f... JOHN COLLISON HANS-ULRICH OBRIST It was the first time we'd ever really seen agents and teams actively going after players. It's kind... DAVE RUBIO These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in ea... PAIGE DAVIS I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get m... MACKENZIE DAVIS I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do thin... BETH SIMONE NOVECK In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something tha... BROOKE ADAMS It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a roo... ALEX VAN HALEN Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye... NIELS ARDEN OPLEV MARIA SHARAPOVA TADANOBU ASANO I think we all really respect each other and we really respect the work that each one does and we re... ALICIA KEYS Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house. FLORA THOMPSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES PAUL MERTON BELLA THORNE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a ch... DAVID FERRY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ... RADHA MITCHELL I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina an... SCARLETT THOMAS People like reality; I think it's always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go t... DAVID CHARVET RAM DASS RUDY GIULIANI C. JOYBELL C. I think it's huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and t... ALEX MORGAN ROBBIE COLTRAINE It's free of hip dialing. You can have some pretty confidential conversations and not get overhe... JERRY JONES I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each... ABBIE CORNISH SCOTT DERRICKSON TED DEKKER DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF ELIZABETH GILBERT Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other,... FRANK GEHRY WINONA RYDER I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different fro... EDGAR RAMIREZ ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific worl... JANE MAYER MARTIN SCORSESE You're talking to the best in Hollywood and a lot of the best of Hollywood happens to be from Boston... JASON WOLFE DAVID M. KELLEY CASSANDRA CLARE To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous... SALLY SCHNEIDER I absolutely love 'Four In A Bed.' Before I started filming, and I was unemployed, it was th... KIMBERLEY NIXON L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood... PAIGE CRAIG Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious disease... PARDIS SABETI It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one sla... FRED WARD To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... MIKE BIRBIGLIA JOHN LEGEND Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how yo... TORY BURCH PAULO COELHO We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG MARILYN HACKER I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films,... RUPERT FRIEND HOWARD SCHULTZ We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history ... DAVID HALLBERG TATIANA MASLANY CHRIS MILK I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON ALEXIS OHANIAN TED DEKKER When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN CHRISTOPHER WALKEN If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each othe... RICHARD THOMAS We think that the best way to keep calm and cool and dignified is to look at each other and talk to ... TRENT LOTT The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've ... THELMA GOLDEN ANDREA HAIRSTON J.D. SALINGER Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging my... MARIA SEMPLE STEVE MARTIN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE MAGGIE GALLAGHER Ellenville's the next place to boom, I think, and a lot of other agents think the same way. It's rea... BARBARA HOWLAND My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about remi... TYLER HOECHLIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you label somebody and put them in a box, then you put the lid on the box, and you just never l... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM AMY POEHLER
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BILL BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY 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 MELODY BEATTIE If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautifu... IAN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY 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 JAMES BEATTIE MELODY 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 MELODY BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE It's a fresh, masculine and modern fragrance. SCOTT BEATTIE 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 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 MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE I have no problem with the CMC looking at any politician or any bureaucrat, and they can make that d... PETER BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE Our goal this year was to get a home playoff game as a young team. We?re playing well, and we still ... ED BEATTIE We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little... ED BEATTIE We gave them a pretty good go. We had trouble with (Megan) Jackson. She played a great game and we h... ED BEATTIE We thought it was must-win. (Keene) has to win two games to go beyond us now. This win could move us... ED BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE There's a lot of anxiety ... Someone retires and we're just doing without. We're just doing with les... LYNN BEATTIE I sometimes think there's not a real serious attempt to make our contractors comply with the same sa... LYNN BEATTIE There's a lot of anxiety ... Someone retires and we're just doing without. We're just doing with les... LYNN BEATTIE It's appropriate ... in due course the Serious Fraud Office be held accountable, absolutely account ... MALCOLM BEATTIE All of us give to charities and regard them highly, so if they are tainted in any way, then it hurts... MALCOLM BEATTIE The overland water no longer is going over (North Dakota) Highway 18 in any spot. And you can start ... LEE BEATTIE Yeah, for the most part, we shut down operations at the fire hall Friday. We had no dike walkers las... LEE BEATTIE I believe that we have reached the tipping point between pragmatic patience and a genuine missed opp... LANE BEATTIE The contributions of Huntsman Corporation to our state have been tremendous. Having their headquarte... LANE BEATTIE After two really heavy down days, where we lost over 375 points (on the TSE 300), it's not surprisin... KATHERINE BEATTIE The market is already in a serious downtrend so any disappointment is going to clobber the market. KATHERINE BEATTIE There is concern about the strength of the U.S. employment report, in that if the Fed has to move it... KATHERINE BEATTIE My mother's going to be 85 and she's never seen anything like this. MARTIN BEATTIE On a good weekend we're apt to have 1,000 snow machines through our yard. MARTIN BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE I just got done putting it all back together after the hurricane and now I have to deal with this ag... SCOTT BEATTIE MELODY BEATTIE ANN COULTER ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN NOCENTI ANN LANDERS I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep. ANN WILSON Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love... ANN BRASHARES We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's... 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