Steve Carlton (Steven Norman Carlton) Quotes
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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I want to have a long career.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
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I feel good. Health-wise, I'm probably in better shape than I was a bunch of years before. Being a diabetic, I watch everything I eat. I feel great physically.
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For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
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Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!
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I’m still staring at that irritating NVA flag flapping in a wet breeze that blows over the river when the lull ends as it usually does in Hue. People resume dying.
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I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.
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We me and brother wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.
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Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.
