Anne Carson Quotes
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.
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As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
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We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
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The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
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The caricatures that the mainstream media and the Democrats have about Republicans have taken hold.
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The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
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Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
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Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.
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I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.
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I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
