Anne Carson Quotes
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Quotes to Explore
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I believed I was invincible.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Novels are longer than life.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
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If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.
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I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
