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

• We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Great
  • Music
  • Inherited

• But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • People
  • Way
  • Spotlight

• The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

  

  Kerri Strug
  • Great
  • Courage
  • Inside

• Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Men
  • May
  • Help

• As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Eye
  • Darkness
  • Grows

• 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