Carole Maso Quotes
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain - rigor and recklessness - simultaneously.
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
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We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.
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I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.
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In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.
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One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.
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I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.
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I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.
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I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.
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I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.
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It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
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All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain - rigor and recklessness - simultaneously.
