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Ann Beattie

"If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that."

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Donna Grant

"That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show."

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Donna Grant

"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."

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Donna Grant

"With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them."

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"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig."

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"My own favorite is something called Rogue Male."

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Donna Grant

"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual."

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Donna Grant

"Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."

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Donna Grant

"Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories."

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"My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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Ann Beattie
"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."

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

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Ann Beattie
"I've spent my life supporting myself."

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Ann Beattie
"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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Ann Beattie
"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."

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Ann Beattie
"I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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