Bliss Carman Quotes
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
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A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.
Colson Whitehead -
We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
