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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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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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
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I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.
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I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
