Rachel Carson Quotes
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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I don't even sing in the shower.
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KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
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It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
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I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.
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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
