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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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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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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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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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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As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
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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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So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd gone elsewhere and came in only to tell me that. He was pretty belittling, and he had to tell me I was no good. Where it ended up, I asked him not to come back.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
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I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.
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It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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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.
