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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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I'm not big on remakes.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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This is the thing that I was born to do.
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I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
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I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.
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When people are like, 'Why are these white people walking around this black hood?' I'm like, 'Why aren't they?' If it ain't bothering nobody, they can do whatever they want! They're in the hood to make it better.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
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I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.
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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.
