Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes
The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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I try to stay focused.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.
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I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.
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I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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I think with challenge comes a little more fun.
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I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.
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Me and me dad didn't have a great relationship when we were younger. We had a good relationship, but it wasn't an affectionate relationship.
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We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.
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...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.
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The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
