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Ann Richards

Ann Richards (1933-2006)

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. She first came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush.[1] Ann Richards was the second female governor of Texas.

Quotes·Quotations by Ann Richards

Success

¶ I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Notes

[1]^ CBS/AP, "Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards Dies At Age 73, After A Six-Month Battle With Esophageal Cancer," CBSNews.com, September 13, 2006, web:CBSNews-Richards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards

Anita Wise

Anita Wise

Quotes·Quotations by Anita Wise

Appearance

¶ Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face.

Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, is a 15-year-old sophomore at Liberty High School in Three Rivers, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Pittsburgh. Like most teens in the throes of self-evaluation, Angela is attempting to discover and assert her identity. To do this, she distances herself from her past and pulls away from her parents and her childhood friends, Sharon Cherski and Brian Krakow. In their place, she befriends Rayanne Graff and Rickie Vasquez. Angela has a crush on Jordan Catalano and admires him from afar; they later begin dating, and inevitably break up. With these new relationships, Angela finds herself in precarious and sometimes dangerous situations; despite temptation, she always remains true to her values. Angela narrates 17 of the 19 episodes in voice-over.

Quotes·Quotations by Angela Chase

Claire Danes as Angela from My So-Called Life (1994)

¶ Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. [Pressure, 1.13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_So-Called_Life
People: Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.

Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1984, two years before his death. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".[1] Warhol's works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.

Quotes·Quotations by Andy Warhol

Art

¶ Land really is the best art.

Change

¶ They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

References

[1]^ "A special report on the art market: The Pop master's highs and lows". The Economist. November 26, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol

Andy Serkis (1964- )

Andy Serkis (1964- )

Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor, director and author.

He is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its upcoming prequel The Hobbit, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.

Andrew also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion captured work have been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum for which he earned several award nominations, becoming the first motion captured actor to win a Empire Award, a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Quotes·Quotation by Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings

¶ My precious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Serkis

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

Quotes·Quotations by Andrew Lang

Writing·Reading

¶ You can cover a great deal of country in books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815). A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he destroyed the national bank and relocated most Indian tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River. His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party. The 1830-1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.

Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because of his toughness and aggressive personality; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents. He was a rich slaveholder, who appealed to the common men of the United States, and fought politically against what he denounced as a closed, undemocratic aristocracy. He expanded the spoils system during his presidency to strengthen his political base.

Elected president in 1828, Jackson supported a small and limited federal government. He strengthened the power of the presidency, which he saw as spokesman for the entire population, as opposed to Congressmen from a specific small district. He was supportive of states' rights, but during the Nullification Crisis, declared that states do not have the right to nullify federal laws. Strongly against the national bank, he vetoed the renewal of its charter and ensured its collapse. Whigs and moralists denounced his aggressive enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the forced relocation of thousands of Native American tribes to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Historians acknowledge his protection of popular democracy and individual liberty for United States citizens, and sometimes criticize him for his support for slavery and for his role in Indian removal.

Quotes·Quotation

One man with courage makes a majority. [Courage]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson (1967- )

Pamela "Pam" Denise Anderson (born 1 July 1967) is a Canadian-born international television actress, model, and producer.

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@ Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.
Playboy, July 1992

@ I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.
Lee, Luaine. TV's new VIP on gettin' naked, bein' a drama queen--and (shhh!) her secret ache. Retrieved on 2006-08-22.

@ When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.
Playboy, May 2004.

@ I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!
The London Paper, Wed 27 June 2007, p.21

@ What's going on outside? It was really nice - all the fans out there with big signs.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 8, 2008, referring to the writers strike picket line outside the studio

@ My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pamela_Anderson
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:Actors

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

Anne Bradstreet (born Anne Dudley; c. 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.

Quotes·Quotations by Anne Bradstreet

Winter

¶ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet

Anatole France (1844-1924)

Anatole France (1844-1924)

Anatole France (pronounced: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]) (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo], was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his literary achievements.

Quotes·Quotation

Beauty

¶ If I were called upon to choose between beauty and truth, I should not hesitate; I should hold to beauty, being confident that it bears within it a truth both higher and deeper than truth itself. I will go so far as to say there is nothing true in the world save beauty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France

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