Rachel Carson Quotes
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
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I'm not going to anticipate the outcome of the discussions. I hope they will be successful.
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Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
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I'm not interested in a persona.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.