Anne Sexton Quotes
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
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By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
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The most positive men are the most credulous…
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Learn all the rules... then break them.
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
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Mrs. Fisher had never cared for macaroni, especially not this long, worm-shaped variety. She found it difficult to eat--slippery, wriggling off her fork, making her look, she felt, undignified when, having got it as she supposed into her mouth, ends of it yet hung out. Always, too, when she ate it she was reminded of Mr. Fisher. He had during their married life behaved very much like macaroni. He had slipped, he had wriggled, he had made her feel undignified, and when at last she had got him safe, as she thought, there had invariably been little bits of him that still, as it were, hung out.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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Dearest,although everything has happened,nothing has happened.
