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Anne Enright Quotes

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Roots Why Tell Narrative Monsters

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Peace War World Champion Cannot

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

Experience Job Past Effort Support

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

Character Relationship Past Bear Who

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

Life Love Light Experience Pain Me

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Live Think Hell Die You Earth

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.

Government Society Information Unique

For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take away from it is how much fun it is to perform a serialized story.

Fun Me Story Actor Storytelling

I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

Father Time Birds World Remember

I wanted to model when I was younger.

Model Wanted Younger

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

Learning Live Grateful Present Look

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Passion Football Nobody Escape More

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.

Funny Creative School People Go Up

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