Carolyn Crane Quotes

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

Carolyn Crane

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• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Uncle

• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Politics
  • President
  • Talking

• I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Past
  • Starting
  • Again

• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Long
  • Night

• People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Overcoming
  • Defeat

• I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Friends
  • City

• It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parents

• Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Resistance
  • Universal Law

• Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Helping

• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Deep

• God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Light
  • Evil

• Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

  

  Carolyn Crane
  • Darkness
  • Accumulate