Anne Enright Quotes

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anne Enright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 11, 1962

Topics

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I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

John Benjamin Hickey

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In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

Andrew Motion

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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

Ann Richards

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Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Michael Bloomberg

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Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

John Travolta

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I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.

Spike Jonze

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I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Miguel de Icaza

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We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

Julen Lopetegui

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Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.

Brad Anderson

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I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

Anthony Hopkins

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The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It's a difficult, and weird, situation.

Selena Gomez

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