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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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.
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Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
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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.
