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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My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.
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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.
