Anne Enright Quotes

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

Anne Enright

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• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Me
  • Boundaries

• To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Become
  • Well-Rounded

• Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Nobody

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Man
  • Practice
  • Intention

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Years
  • Difference
  • Holocaust

• I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Speak
  • Act
  • Through

• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mind
  • Just
  • Another

• Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Enemy
  • Down
  • Hunting

• What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • People
  • Work
  • Support

• The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

  

  George Grosz
  • War
  • Clarity
  • Drawings

• I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Door
  • Looks

• A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

  

  Anne Enright