Anne Enright Quotes
When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.
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Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'
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That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.