Emily Carr Quotes
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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I feel like it's always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you know you look tired, when you curl eyelashes and put mascara it makes such a huge difference, so that's the trick that I always use.
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My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
