Carol Grace Quotes
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
