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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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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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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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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I was never any good at keeping secrets.
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I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.
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I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
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People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.
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My family owned a furniture/appliance store near Kingston, Jamaica. I worked there all summer but lived in a very structured environment the rest of the year at an all-girl Catholic boarding school.
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Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.
