Caroline Pratt Quotes
Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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I write what I write.
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My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.
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Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.
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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.
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Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.
