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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Nothing
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Life

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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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