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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.


Annie Proulx

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ANNIE HOUGHTON If I play my game, I think I can give some pretty hard matches.
ANNIE HOUGHTON This feels so good because doctors said I might not be as good as I used to be. But I'm playing the ...
ANNIE HOUGHTON I'm sure they think it's weird that I play with the boys, and I think they try to avoid me, but I ju...
ANNIE HOUGHTON I never really think about playing against boys. I hit against boys every day in practice. I don't r...
ANNIE HOUGHTON As a girl, I even hate losing to boys. So, I couldn't even imagine what it is like for a boy to lose...
ANNIE HOUGHTON Each January, we would set aside time to pray. We had a band, families, and we traveled. We had 20 p...
ANNIE HERRING That's actually how 2nd Chapter of Acts was born. Matthew and Nelly saw the power of the Holy Spirit...
ANNIE HERRING We sang all over the place.
ANNIE HERRING I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and mov...
ANNIE HERRING It just didn't seem appropriate at this time.
ANNIE FORT It's not like you can mail an application and get a call the next week.
ANNIE FORT We have not even been served with the complaint in this matter, and so have no comment.
ANNIE FORT We did the same thing with the pope movie. We don't really announce development. (CBS) may have gott...
ANNIE FORT I need to know what's going on with my living situation and through the post office is the only syst...
ANNIE EVANS we are anticipating that enough good and generous people will help us, just as the response has been...
ANNIE EVANS We will endeavor to do all that we can for those stricken by these terrible natural disasters. The r...
ANNIE EVANS If customers don't give us their new addresses I can't hold on to their mail forever. I have to retu...
ANNIE EVANS So we used a coliseum address and we were evacuated again to Tennessee ...it's just been crazy.
ANNIE EVANS By limiting your losses to 30 big bets, you are effectively minimizing the time you spend playing wi...
ANNIE DUKE My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.
ANNIE DUKE Yes, they should be refused bail. I wouldn't like to think of a sex offender roaming the streets.
ANNIE DUKE DD Tournament Poker is a great game for introducing people to the world of Texas Hold'em poker, ... ...
ANNIE DUKE For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest ...
ANNIE BESANT will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our han...
ANNIE BESANT For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest ...
ANNIE BESANT Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own lim...
ANNIE BESANT No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT We got a lot of experience coming back.
ANNIE BASIC