Anne Carson Quotes
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
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Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd.
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I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
