Anna Quindlen Quotes - Page 14

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• The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.

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  Mean, People, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.

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  Country, United States, Unemployment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

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  College, America, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

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  Thinking, Needs, Stories

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• I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

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  Motherhood, Knows, Written

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

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  Successful, Philadelphia, Childhood

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• My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

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  Mother, Loving Mother

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• My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

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  Father, Years, Way

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• I've always had a certain facility with words.

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  Certain, Facility

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• The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

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  Teacher, Reinforcement, Changed

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• I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything particularly special or wonderful about it, but when you watch somebody hold on to that life with both hands, it makes you think that life must be pretty damn good.

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  Mother, Thinking, Hands

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• My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

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  Children, Father, Boys

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• The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

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  Writing, House, Towns

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• The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think might be important or pivotal, a lot of times I'll scribble notes down somewhere until I can get back to the book. Of course half the time I look at those notes the next morning and think, "What was that about?"

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  Morning, Memories, Book

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• I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

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  Writing

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• What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

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  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Novelists

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• The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.

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  Love You, Men, Two

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• I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

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  Heart, Catholic, New Testament

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• We're tortured, a lot of us, believe me.

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  Believe, Believe In Me

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• Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.

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  Beer, Guy, Burgers

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• I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

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  Book, Thinking, Climbing

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• I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

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  Kind, Pollyanna, Persons

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• I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Describe Me

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