Duane G. Carey Quotes
There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
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We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
