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Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: About Answer Could Enthusiastic Few First First Time Given Last Last Few Years Life Listened More Much Music My Life Now Really Think Time Used Well Work Years Years Ago You I Think

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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Falling Meant Meant To Be Much Music Part Place Rooted Time Very

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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Boy Came Could Culture Dancing Different Different Way Exactly Exactly What Few Fourteen Love More Music Name Now Old Out Part People Really Say Songs Summer Than Think Thought Used Way Years I Think

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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: City Creative Did Distance Door Find Forth Going Had Keeping Lived Locks Music New New York Only Peace Safety Time Trying York

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Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Agents Always Certain Conversations Each Happens Hollywood Improvisation Love Love Always Much Other Really Room Russian Talk Tea Think Way

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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Aim Cambridge Camera Classes Days Even Harvard How Incorporated Know Photography Project Teaching Those Took 1970S

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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Also Common Happy Little Lumped Minimalism Share Term Terribly Together Us Who

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It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Does Give Gratifying Love Readings I Love

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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Been Cynical Depressing Extremely Known Make Never Often Said Writer

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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Bleak Serious Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 8th, 1947

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