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Angela Carter Quotes

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: May 7, 1940 - February 16, 1992

Topics

People Comedy Tragedy Happens Other

To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

Life Winter Struggle Together Soul

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature Man World Will Never Him

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

Basketball Coaching I Can Know Only

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

Good Cooking Data Understand Need

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Good Gardening I Am Trees Plant You

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

Eye Surrender Want Will Watch Even

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

Dance Rhythm Always Natural Got

I wanted to be an undercover cop, blending in with the public, looking like a black militant or a long-haired hippie yet having a gun on my hip, a badge in my wallet, and able to enforce the law. To me, that was the neatest thing in the world. It was also challenging.

Me Law World Looking Black Gun

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Mind Body Pleasures Another

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.

Mary Steenburgen

Father Girl Heart Childhood Little

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

Me Ambition You Say Open See

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

Jason Scott Lee

Listening Self Talking You Acting

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