Carolyn See Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
-
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
-
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
-
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
-
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
-
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
-
Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
-
When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
-
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
-
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
-
Whether elected or appointedHe considers himself the Lord's annointed,And indeed the ointment lingers on himSo thick you can't get your fingers on him.
-
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
-
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
-
If not for radio, I'd probably be working at the local supermarket doing who knows what. But after I got that first break at 16, I was not going to do anything else. I had my mind set on radio one way or another.
-
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
-
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
-
He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.
-
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
-
When I got famous, all of a sudden guys wouldn't look at me. Period. So I felt a little sad, a little frustrated. Like, What's going on here? I've never been prettier in my life and I'm so cool and successful.
-
Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.
-
You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
