Anna Quindlen Quotes - Page 8

• Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.

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  Libro, Escritura, Oportunidad

  Fuente: urbanmoms.ca

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• In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire, I think that there's the subrosa feeling that we are at the end of the American century, and I think that's very, very hard for Americans to take.

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  Pensamiento, ideas, sentimientos

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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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  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

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  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Creo que hubo un largo periodo de tiempo en el que nos volcamos de lleno en una cultura juvenil, y no por casualidad fue cuando los baby boomers, que admitámoslo, ocupan mucho espacio en el planeta, eran jóvenes.

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  Baby, Real, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."

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  Writing, Years, Editors

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is that I was always keenly aware that life was fleeting, and that you'd better live while you have the chance. As I say in the book, since I was 19 years old I felt like I was living for two, and when I out-lived my mother, when I got into my forties, it felt like a miracle to me.

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  Mother, Book, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• El futuro se construye con cerebros, no con bailes de graduación, como la mayoría de la gente puede decirte después de asistir a su reunión de instituto. Pero nunca lo sabrías hablando con los chavales o escuchando los mensajes que reciben de la cultura e incluso de sus colegios.

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  Kids, School, Talking

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• I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

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  Mean, Ambitious, Looks

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• Soy un católico del Nuevo Testamento, no soy un católico de la jerarquía.

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  Catholic, Hierarchy, New Testament

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• Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

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  Children, Rights, Elephants

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• Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a record number of people in their sixties have kids who may still depend upon them.

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  Kids, Numbers, People

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.

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  Real, Home, Feelings

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.77, Random House

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

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  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

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  Marriage, Lying, Believe

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.22, Random House

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• Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

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  Vision, Sometimes, Corners

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• More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.

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  Numbers, Government, Faults

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• Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

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  Spiritual, Reading, Emotional

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• I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the end of the 100 or 125 or 150 years when we were the undisputed arbiter and leader of the world.

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  Thinking, Years, Leader

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• I think a lot of people, but particularly a lot of women, get to this stage when I'd say they're over 50. We face a lot of hard judgment from the world, we women. If you're a full-time mother, you should be out working. If you're out working, your kids must be being overlooked.

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  Madre, Niños, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

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  Xenophobia, Thinking, Racism

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

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  Diversión, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

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  New York, Party, Moving

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• There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

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  Parent, Literature, Rooms

  Anna Quindlen (2003). "Lecciones objetivas: One True Thing; Black and Blue"

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• Lo que espero de mis amigos varones es que sean educados y limpios. Lo que espero de mis amigas es amor incondicional, la capacidad de terminar mis frases cuando estoy sollozando, una disposición total y absoluta a desahogarse conmigo y la capacidad de decirme por qué el termómetro de la carne no debe tocar el hueso.

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  Friendship, Women, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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