Carol Tavris Quotes
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to theLight - The marrow in the boneWe dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, thesap in the treeWere springs of Deity.
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Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
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Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer.
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The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
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If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.
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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
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As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.
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It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.
