Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
Kate Moss -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
Vikram Patel -
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett -
I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett -
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
Karen Traviss -
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
Ramez Naam -
I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
Imogen Poots -
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
Sam Simon
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
T. J. Miller -
I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
Bas Rutten -
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund Hillary -
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
Naveen Jain -
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
Imogen Heap -
You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama -
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals.
Mahatma Gandhi -
This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
Samuel Barnett -
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Clinton Van Doren