Caroline Llewellyn Quotes
There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'
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The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.
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If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
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There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
