Cara Castronuova Quotes
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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All of life is a foreign country.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
