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.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Roles

• 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.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Job
  • Opportunities

• I try to stay focused.

  

  OMI
  • Try
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• 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.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Imogene Coca
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Fly

• I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Think
  • Team
  • More

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Gun
  • Dangerous

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Air
  • Travel

• I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Fun
  • Challenge

• I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Girl
  • Guilty

• To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Credit

• If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Moments
  • Elsewhere

• The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Life
  • Cruelty
  • Gentle

• I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beginning

• The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Simple
  • Persons
  • Said