Anne Enright Quotes
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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saddened to hear the passing of a true artistic master, H.R. Giger. Ur legacy will live on through ur innovative & stimulating originality
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The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
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It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put 'Elected' out, it was definitely a satire ... 'Alice Cooper for President' ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it. I mean, if you're going to compare him to somebody, it's Shakespeare in terms of centrality of the tradition, in being at the beginning of it.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
