Anne Carson Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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It ain't over till it's over.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
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Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it's so relaxing. It's also a great form of active recovery. It's perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
