Anne Michaels Quotes
I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'
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Counting is the most simple and primitive of narratives - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 - a tale with a beginning, a middle and an end and a sense of progression - arriving at a finish of two digits - a goal attained, a dénouement reached.
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I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen - Amjad Ali's 'Durga.' He said, 'This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.' And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.
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I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.
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I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.
