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A finished person is a boring person.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
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Anna Marie Quindlen
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... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.
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When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
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I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.
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I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I had no steering. I do think it's true that when you're younger, you're more likely to listen to all the naysayers, and people are always telling you how you ought to behave and what kind of job you should get and how you should look.
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part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
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The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
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I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.
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Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.
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Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.
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The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.
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You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.
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As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.
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On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.
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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
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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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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
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I am an affirmative action hire.
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An election marks the end of the affair it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.
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