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.
Ian Mckellen
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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.
Randee Heller
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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.
Carl Jung
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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.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
J. B. Pritzker
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
Karan Johar
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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.
Edgar Wright
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Mao Zedong
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
Jack Kilby
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
Ram Dass
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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.
Nana Mouskouri
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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.
Ramakrishna
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Al Stewart
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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
Claire Tomalin
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
Queen Elizabeth II
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Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
Bill Simmons
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Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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.
Carolyn Parkhurst