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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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
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Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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We eat all organic at home, so if we're running around and the kids want a hot dog or pretzel, I'll get it for them.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
