Carolyn Forche Quotes
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
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Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
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Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.
