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Anne Enright Quotes

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Damn Years Working Kids Four

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Change Medical Financial American

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

John C. McGinley

Relationship Focus Child Thoughts

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

I Am Name Doing You Mouth Play

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

People Me Say Never Breath Used

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

Day Wife World Bible Reading Enjoy

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Work You Privacy Become Celebrity

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Jason Alexander

Together Early Kind Mean Kid Heavy

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

Great Play Relationships Out Press

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

Diane Mott Davidson

Nobody Crime Talk Catering Sheriff

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

Time You Trauma Lovely Rare Film

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

Clifford D. Simak

Life Purpose Me Speak Earth Seems

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Wisdom Age Tomorrow Yesterday Become

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