Anne Carson Quotes

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Anne Carson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeThinkFactsAbilityEmotional

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

Maureen O'Hara

FreedomGreatTimeBelieveFighter

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Michael J. Fox

AmbitionGrowing UpHockeyActingUp

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

Steve Chabot

PeoplePartyGoingGetOffAware

I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, 'I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.' And I didn't sign my name.

Steve Carell

LoveGirlValentine's DayDayI Am

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Robert De Niro

TruthTruth IsThinkHollywoodClass

I learned at a young age that we were going to have to be personable, going to have to be marketable, and going to have to be creative in order to have a race team.

Robby Gordon

AgeCreativeTeamYoungRaceGoing

When I was a teenager, I was super-awkward. I don't think I really felt comfortable in my body or with how I looked, and people were nasty.

Rumer Willis

PeopleThinkBodyComfortableNasty

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Michael Shermer

PeopleMeStrongFactsFindAlways

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

Chord Overstreet

MusicGreatOpinionPraiseHimGet

White is pure and simple and matches with everything.

Christian Dior

SimpleWhiteEverythingPureMatches

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

Condola Rashad

PersonalityTryHardSeeI SeeJust

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

Claire Denis

BeginningThinkEndFilmI Think

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