Carolyn Forche Quotes
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
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The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
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Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.
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The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.
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We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).
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A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
