Carol Higgins Clark Quotes
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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Obviously I'd love to see Demetrious Johnson, you know, 'Demetrious Johnson $500,000 payout baby,' absolutely.
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People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.
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I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
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In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.
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I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
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I fell in love with playing the trumpet because of what we call 'hot jazz' of the 1920s and 1930s, music that has a higher energy to it.
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In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.
