Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
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How this noble father led ... ANNIE BESANT In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's goin... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a... ANNIE JACOBSEN Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she i... ANNIE GOTTLIEB I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten. ANNIE ILONZEH 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an imposs... ANNIE BESANT There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ANNIE DILLARD Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim t... ANNIE DILLARD Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, mak... ANNIE DILLARD Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man ... ANNIE BESANT I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors do... ANNIE POTTS It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what ... ANNIE BESANT I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewher... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of f... ANNIE BESANT No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the so... ANNIE BESANT Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed product... ANNIE BESANT A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which ... ANNIE DILLARD As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more a... ANNIE BESANT One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel... ANNIE BRYANT A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. ANNIE PROULX Your body is an intelligent organism; it knows how to heal itself. ANNIE WILSON Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the genera... ANNIE BESANT My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for... ANNIE WOLAVER My grandpa always says he likes music that still sounds good when you unplug it. ANNIE WOLAVER When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ... ANNIE WOLAVER I was named after her. Being named after my great-grandmother shows how God works through the genera... ANNIE WOLAVER There are some in foster care and some in quarantine. The court said they would be released to us. ANNIE STETLER You were frustrated with her, you wanted to help her because this is a mental illness, this hoarding... ANNIE STETLER It's like the seventh level of Hell. ANNIE STETLER They were just running wild all over the property. It was worse than anything I have seen, worse tha... ANNIE STETLER It was horrific, I don't know how else to explain it. ANNIE STETLER We learned to feed off each other even more this season than last. Her moving up top just made my jo... ANNIE STALZER It was starting to get pretty frustrating toward the end of my sophomore year. Teams would put two a... ANNIE STALZER It's always difficult playing against a great team because you can't play your own game. You have to... ANNIE STALZER This is amazing, beating the No.1 team in the nation and getting to play for a state championship my... ANNIE STALZER That was big. It really gave us a little more confidence. ANNIE STALZER We've been playing so well. This is the perfect season! We couldn't ask for anything better. ANNIE STALZER