Carolyn Mahaney Quotes
In fact, you get the feeling nowadays that doing anything outside of the home is more honorable than working in the home. Dorothy Patterson characterizes the current mind-set in this way: Much of the world would agree that being a housekeeper is acceptable as long as you are not caring for your own home; treating men with attentive devotion would also be right as long as the man is the boss in the office and not your husband; caring for children would even be deemed heroic service for which presidential awards could be given as long as the children are someone else’s and not your own.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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In fact, you get the feeling nowadays that doing anything outside of the home is more honorable than working in the home. Dorothy Patterson characterizes the current mind-set in this way: Much of the world would agree that being a housekeeper is acceptable as long as you are not caring for your own home; treating men with attentive devotion would also be right as long as the man is the boss in the office and not your husband; caring for children would even be deemed heroic service for which presidential awards could be given as long as the children are someone else’s and not your own.
