"One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised"

-- Anne Enright

#Writing Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.”
“My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.”
“After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.”
“Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.”
“I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.”

Source : "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.
“one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.”
“When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.”
“Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.”

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