Anne Carson Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me - they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it's their last.
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Strength is your enemy; weakness is your friend.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
