"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."

-- Ann Beattie

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.”

Source : "Woody Harrelson: I'm an anarchist" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. May 31, 2013.
“There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.”
“"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.”

Source : Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1907). “Little Stories”
“I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.”
“Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.”

Source : "Fall Crop" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2010.
“I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.”
“I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'”

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