Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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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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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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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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As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.
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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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I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.
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News photography teaches you to think fast.
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Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business.
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Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.
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I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.
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Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.
