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.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• I've always loved film more than theater.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Film
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• 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.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Singing
  • Listening

• I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Question
  • Always
  • Trouble

• All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Better
  • Crime
  • Level

• 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.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  

  Usher
  • Work
  • Age
  • Play

• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Danger
  • Divorce
  • Independence

• 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.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Change
  • Celebrity

• Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Homecoming

• 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.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.

  

  Trisha Yearwood

• In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Together

• One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

  

  Nora Ephron
  • Writing
  • Blame
  • Directing

• The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

  

  William Gurney Benham
  • Running
  • Road
  • Preparation

• 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.

  

  Carolyn Forche
  • Writing
  • Pieces
  • Publish