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Anne Carson Quotes

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 21, 1950

Topics

I Am Me Person Kind Traditions Just

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.

Winning Tough Expectations Changes

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.

Love Dance Cool Learn New Want

I'm addicted to online shopping.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Shopping Online Addicted

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

Age I Am Terrible Been Writer Could

As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.

Music Religion Devotion Prayers Juan

I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.

Love Television Always Wanted I Love

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Denzel Washington

Father King Kings Go Movies Kid

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

Money Job Down Wrong Want Living

I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid.

Christopher Fowler

Work Myself Coffee You Go Kind

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

Christine McVie

Love Together People Baby Down Play

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

Time King Book You Jazz Way

If you go back to the '80s, you had a whole plethora of artists, everyone from Madonna and Cyndi Lauper to Prince. God bless Lady Gaga for doing her thing, but she's kind of a lone peacock now. If anything, we have a much more conservative kind of pop world. It's not necessarily about individuality.

God World Doing Lady You Back

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