Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I don't study; I create.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
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I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'
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There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.
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If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.
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'Do you love him?' Maura asked curiously.'I'd rather not,' Blue replied.'He has lots of negative qualities I can help you hone in on,' her mother offered.'I'm already aware of them. Infinitely.'
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My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
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With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.
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It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.
