Raymond Carver Quotes
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.
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'Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.'
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To the world,You may be just another girl.But to me,Baby, you are the world.
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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Totally different challenges, but being a dad and fighting both wear you out.
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As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
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I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.
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It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.
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Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
