Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes
Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.
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But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.
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The late Indira Gandhi always used to warn about the dangers that the country was facing. She used to keep saying that the country was going through a very dangerous time. This danger is now many times more than what it was at that time. We should all be cautious now.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.
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If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.
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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.
