Carolyn See Quotes
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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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.'
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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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.
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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.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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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.
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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.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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I just know whenever I fall off His path, things get really hard. So I just stick with what God tells me to do.
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The strength of faith is... no proof of the objective truth of faith.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
