Carol Grace Quotes
I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.
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And I like music, too, I like playing music.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason.
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What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
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I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
