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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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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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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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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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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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.
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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.
