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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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
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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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Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.
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The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
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There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.
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Whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should
