Anne Carson Quotes
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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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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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
