Anne Carson Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan -
Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
Zachary Levi -
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
Ted Deutch -
I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
Felicity Jones -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
Ralph Hodgson -
It ain't over till it's over.
Yogi Berra -
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
Barton Gellman
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Walter Pater -
I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
T. C. Boyle -
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
Nadia Comaneci
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I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
Margot Lee Shetterly -
You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.
Daniel Stern -
I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.
Neil Diamond -
For me, fashion begins in New York.
Carolina Herrera -
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson