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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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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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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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
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I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.
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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.
