Anne Enright Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones. Family meant something. Spouses meant something.
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It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
