Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
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The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.
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Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.
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I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
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I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
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I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.
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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.
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What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.
