Anne Michaels Quotes
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
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I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
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I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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Nature knows best.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
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Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
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I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.
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Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
