Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
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I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.
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We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -only those who have experienced it can understand it.
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Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
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No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.
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Notice what no one else notices and you'll know what no one else knows.
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Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.
