Anne Enright Quotes
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I got no hate in me.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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My husband proposed to me on the beach using candy.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
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People change, they grow.
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We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
