Caroline Pratt Quotes
The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
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On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.
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The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.
