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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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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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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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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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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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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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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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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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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We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.
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I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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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.
