Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes
People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
Quotes to Explore
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
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If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
