Anne Carson Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
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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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I didn't really have the most healthy of upbringings.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
