Carolyn Mackler Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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Most people don’t think I’m rational. They’re too busy featuring their hurt. They find it irrational not to feature your hurt. That’s how fucked up they are.
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The levelling of inflexion and of wordplay became part of the program of applied knowledge in the seventeenth century. (p. 265)
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The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.
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Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.
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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should
