Rachel Carson Quotes
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
