Anne Enright Quotes
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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When you hire a nanny, the question you ask yourself is, 'What's best for my precious child?' And do you really want someone who feels that your motive in life is to minimize the amount you spend on your child?
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I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
