Anne Enright Quotes
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.
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Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
