Anne Carson Quotes
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
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You can give into a relationship and warmth and the arms of another person.
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That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
