Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
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The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
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A person gets pushed down; they think they're being 'body-slammed.' There's really not any certain thing - that came from more fake wrestling - you know, 'the body slam,' being picked up in the air and thrown to the ground. It's all in someone's interpretation of what someone thinks a 'body slam' really is.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.
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Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.
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My whole life is a vacation.
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The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
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The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
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I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.
