Angela Carter Quotes

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Most newborn things are influenced by parents or even grandparents.

Jimmy Savile

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In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

Joanna Southcott

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If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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The only thing that gets reported are the tragedies. But it rarely gets reported when somebody actually uses their Second Amendment right with a gun to protect themselves against a criminal.

Steve Scalise

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'The Little Mermaid' was a really great experience.

Ron Clements

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I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Roddy Doyle

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In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.

Robert Zubrin

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You just don't know who you could fall in love with.

Ruth Bradley

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My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

Jonathan Brown

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I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Chris Isaak

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If you're sitting in front of the TV, you can't have ice cream. But if you're running around all day, then yeah, you can.

Alison Sweeney

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I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

Peyton Manning

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