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 mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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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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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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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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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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He who will not economize will agonize.
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We haven't won the games we wanted to win. I thought maybe if I put baseball aside and focus on football, I can get us a step closer to where we want to be.
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We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
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Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should
