Raymond Carver Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
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People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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There is no learning without remembering.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.
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I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
