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I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

~Anne Hathaway

Topics: About Away Bad Burned Calm Date Deal Done Down Emergency Emotions Good House Later Lot Made Me Needed Pragmatic Pretty Pretty Good Push Really Remaining Them Which I Can

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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: About Comeback Down Lose Nothing Out Out Of Time Sweet Time You

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Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Air Being Book Book Tour Brother Crash Down Excitement Get Having Holding Hurt Kid Leap Like Little Little Kid Mercy Older Older Brother Paul Play Rising Someone Then Those Tour Up You Your

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Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: About Bookstores Carried Christian Christians Down Evangelical How How Much Jesus Love Much Sit Talk I Can

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I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Been Christianity Down Enthusiasm Get Just Learn Like Meditate Minutes More Part Quiet Sit I Can

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By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders.

~Anne M. Mulcahy

Topics: Become By The Time Ceo Chairman Commitment Company Dedicated Difference Down Firm Had January Leaders Made People Plan Profitable Stepped Still Strong Time Today Turnaround Vibrant Xerox

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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

~Anne Mccaffrey

Topics: About After Believing Could Does Down Exist Go Making Others Page Put See Want Writing You

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I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Child Close Down Find Impression Keep Made Me Moments Remember Somehow Started Things Very Wanting Way Write Young Young Child

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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

~Anne Perry

Topics: Back Does Down End Everyone Go Happened Including Just Off Page People Sit Some Some People Start Then Way Why Write You

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I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

~Anne Reid

Topics: Anything Anything Else Billy Did Down Else First Good Hell Liar Play Then Thought Turned

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