Anne Stevenson Quotes
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
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When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they're in for a show. I believe in romance.
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I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.
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For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
