Anne Carson Quotes
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.
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I am not saying that gas chambers did not exist. I did not see them myself. I haven't studied the questions specially. But I believe it is a minor point in the history of the Second World War.
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I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.
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Generally in the theatre, you spend some portion of the performance convincing people they have done the right thing in buying the ticket, that this is the play they want to watch.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
