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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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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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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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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Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.
