Anne Enright Quotes
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.'
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
