Anne Carson Quotes
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I was an expert horseman.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
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I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
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In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
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Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
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I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
