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.

Anne Enright

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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.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Education
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Important
  • Show

• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Important
  • Information
  • More

• 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.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Money
  • Character
  • Respect

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Down

• The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Important
  • Service
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Family
  • Name
  • Outside

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. But it's true: If you know something about a person outside of the movie that is really repulsive to you, it's hard to shake. So I prefer to do my speaking through the work. I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through these characters. The other stuff is personal and too easy to trivialize out of context.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the script page.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Character
  • Scripts
  • Pages

• Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

  

  Miguel Sapochnik
  • Important
  • Compromise
  • Particular

• You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

  

  William Hague
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Information
  • Modern
  • Fortune

• I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Important
  • Character