Caitlin Thomas Quotes
There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.
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Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
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You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
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Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
