Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice
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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
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I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'
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Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.
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I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.
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Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
