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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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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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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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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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 love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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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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If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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I don't feel that I have to prove anything to anyone as far as what I've done in fighting.
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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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I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
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I’m fond of joking that when I get stuck in writing, I’ll kill a character or blow something up (in the novel…usually).
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I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.
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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.
