Anne Carson Quotes
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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I have been incredibly proud and incredibly humbled to have had a front-row seat in covering this election [2016]. I'm working the hardest I've ever worked. I'm on the air six days a week...covering this election has been historic and amazing, and it has helped me grow so much [as a journalist].
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I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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The recruit was Sam McCain; in one of our lunch sessions I recalled Sarah O’Connell describing him as more mouth than brain. Unsurprisingly, he’d been in sales most of his life.
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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
