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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

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

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • Homecoming

• One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

• The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Past
  • Period

• We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Family

• I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Life
  • Up

• I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Good

• If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Writing
  • Exercise

• Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

  

  John Lukacs
  • Writing
  • May
  • Language

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • Good
  • Believe

• I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

  

  William Brewster
  • Heart
  • Goal
  • Discipline

• 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
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