Anne Carson Quotes
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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A France or a Belgium is not quite a sovereign nation any more, and thus does not have complete control over its national destiny or foreign relations.
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My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
