Anne Enright Quotes
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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Having no experience in running a business, President Obama just doesn't get it. In fact, he fights against it. Just recently, he said, 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'
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Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.
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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
