Carolyn See Quotes
There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.
