Anne Carson Quotes
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
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My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?
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What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
