Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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I like 'Homeland' a lot.
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I do think I'm a character actor.
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For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.
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You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.
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We use the coastline as much as the sea otters. And we take fish from the water, we swim in the water, surf in the water. And what's happening to the sea otter could very well be happening to a much larger picture than just the animals themselves.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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George liked computers and was always sharing interesting facts with her friends.
